{"title":"Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse acclaimed biographies by Walter Isaacson including Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and The Innovators. Browse more titles in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/autobiography\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e at Bookalley India.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kissinger-9780743286978","title":"Kissinger By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive biography of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and how his ideas still resonate in the world today from the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs.By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man š ž s personality and the foreign policy he pursued. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources, including US presidents and his business clients, this first full-length biography makes use of many of Kissinger š ž s private papers and classified memos to tell his uniquely American story. The result is an intimate narrative, filled with surprising revelations, that takes this grandly colorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany, through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon, to his later years as a globe-trotting business consultant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49630762303790,"sku":"W6","price":1899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/41cUq4PGEJL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1753345489"},{"product_id":"einstein-his-life-and-universe-9781847390547","title":"Einstein : His Life And Universe By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being, and great genius.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793086849326,"sku":"W1","price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/Einstein--HIS-LIFE-AND-UNIVERSE-9781847390547_dfb3d5c3-3e15-4516-b114-fcd4eb486ec1.jpg?v=1746264086"},{"product_id":"einstein-genius-his-life-and-universe-the-code-breaker-9781471167942","title":"Einstein: Genius: His Life And Universe \u0026 The Code Breaker By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescription NOT FOUND. Please let us know. Thanks!!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793086882094,"sku":"W2","price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/Einstein-Genius-His-Life-and-Universe--The-Code-Breaker-9781471167942_9eef48b5-497e-4da7-a3ca-a3d2a8d557e3.jpg?v=1746264085"},{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-an-american-life-9780743258074","title":"Benjamin Franklin An American Life By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklins life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, Americas best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richards Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nations alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution.In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklins amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793086947630,"sku":"W3","price":1099.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/BENJAMIN-FRANKLIN-AN-AMERICAN-LIFE-9780743258074_2b425f6f-8f5a-414b-bf08-a81e703fbab7.jpg?v=1746264084"},{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-reader-9780743273985","title":"Benjamin Franklin Reader By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eA selection of Benjamin Franklins writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson.Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklins writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains Americas favorite founder and wit. Includes an introductory essay exploring Franklins life and impact as a writer, and each piece is accompanied by a preface and notes that provide background, context, and analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793087144238,"sku":"W4","price":1099.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/BENJAMIN-FRANKLIN-READER-9780743273985_188713ba-fb1e-4ebd-873a-3f2926d52081.jpg?v=1746264083"},{"product_id":"wise-men-9781476728827","title":"Wise Men By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a new introduction by the authors, this is the classic account of the American statesmen who rebuilt the world after the catastrophe of World War II.A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces six close friends who shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II. They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos and leave a legacy that dominates American policy to this day: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelts special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nations most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793087242542,"sku":"W5","price":1299.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/Wise-Men-9781476728827_55a31125-be2a-4866-8b4d-4a35283eaf03.jpg?v=1746264081"},{"product_id":"the-innovators-9781471138805","title":"The Innovators By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the minds behind the digital revolution in \u003cem\u003eThe Innovators\u003c\/em\u003e by Walter Isaacson. A compelling look at the pioneers who shaped modern technology\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793087340846,"sku":"W7","price":650.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/The-Innovators-9781471138805_f1159d6b-1f82-4120-82e3-0b78fdeffdc0.jpg?v=1746264080"},{"product_id":"leonardo-da-vinci-9781471166785","title":"Leonardo Da Vinci By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe #1 New York Times Bestseller Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, hes simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable manBooks of the Year - The Times Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal man to the fore. For all his supernatural gifts as an artist and natural scientist.  Leonardo was resolutely human (illegitimate, vegan, in need of patrons) rather than the near deity of legend.  Isaacson is an assured guide to Leonardos fallibility œ so many projects started, so few completed œ as well as his extraordinary curiosity and his even more remarkable painterly skills that were sharpened by intense observation.  Michael Prodger, Books of the Year - The Sunday Times'Infinitely curious, easily distracted, vain and vegetarian, Leonardo is brought to vivid life in this accomplished biography.' - The SundayTimes. 'an illuminating guide to the output of one of the last millennium's greatest minds.' - The Observer 'Isaacson doesnt claim to make any fresh discoveries, but his book is intelligently organised, simply written and beautifully illustrated.' Book of the Day, The Guardian. 'Isaacsons scholarship is impressivehe cites not only primary sources but secondary materials by art critics, essayists, and da Vincis other biographers. This is a monumental tribute to a titanic figure.' - Publisher's Weekly powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.The New YorkerVigorous, insightful.The Washington Post masterpiece.San Francisco ChronicleLuminous.The Daily Beast 'To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages.' David McCullough The creator of Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) officially sold at auction in New York in November 2017 for the record-breaking sum of £341 million. He was historys most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardos astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardos genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him historys most creative genius. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted historys most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardos lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions. Leonardos delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question itto be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793087570222,"sku":"W8","price":1899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/LEONARDO-DA-VINCI-9781471166785_431d5595-d07e-4fb0-be61-a61a25c7f9ac.jpg?v=1746264078"},{"product_id":"code-breakers-9781398502314","title":"Code Breakers By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns. In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. It has already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, and make inheritable changes in the genes of babies. But what does that mean for humanity Should we be hacking our own DNA to make us less susceptible to disease Should we democratise the technology that would allow parents to enhance their kids After discovering this CRISPR, Doudna is now wrestling these even bigger issues. THE CODE BREAKERS is an examination of how life as we know it is about to change and a brilliant portrayal of the woman leading the way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793087602990,"sku":"W9","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/Code-Breakers-9781398502314_032a2160-a127-4efa-a107-2a6fa022d840.jpg?v=1746264076"},{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-9780684807614","title":"Benjamin Franklin By Walter Isaacson | A Genius Life \u0026 Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793087734062,"sku":"W10","price":1399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/Benjamin-Franklin-9780684807614_cd2dc4ec-f02e-4641-afe2-359f5ba4f8cd.jpg?v=1746264075"},{"product_id":"the-code-breaker-9781398518605","title":"The Code Breaker By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Code Breaker, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson explores the revolutionary world of gene editing through the life and work of Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Prize-winning co-developer of CRISPR technology. This gripping narrative blends science, ethics, and the story of a woman whose discovery has reshaped medicine and sparked global debate about the power to rewrite life itself. A must-read for science enthusiasts, students, and anyone intrigued by the future of genetic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793087766830,"sku":"W11","price":520.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/The-Code-Breaker-9781398518605_d183fb03-fb16-4185-a813-52ef7c2ed625.jpg?v=1746264073"},{"product_id":"elon-musk-9781398527492","title":"Elon Musk By Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our eraa rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793087832366,"sku":"W12","price":1399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/Elon-Musk-9781398527492_c927dcc1-ff14-43cc-9ccb-6ec604a71538.jpg?v=1746264072"},{"product_id":"code-breaker-young-readers-edition-9781665910675","title":"Code Breaker Young Readers Edition By Walter Isaacson | Dna \u0026 Discovery","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the fascinating world of DNA and gene editing in \u003cem\u003eCode Breaker œ Young Readers Edition\u003c\/em\u003e by Walter Isaacson. A thrilling journey into scientific discovery!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793088454958,"sku":"W13","price":410.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/Code-Breaker----Young-Readers-Edition-9781665910675_d0859845-227c-496f-b155-9f093e8130fa.jpg?v=1746264069"},{"product_id":"elon-musk-9781398536418","title":"Elon Musk By Walter Isaacson A Riveting Biography Of Innovation","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the untold story of Elon Musk in Walter Isaacson s gripping biography. Explore his journey, innovations, and the mind behind Tesla, SpaceX \u0026amp; more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookAlley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49793088553262,"sku":"W14","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/Elon-Musk-9781398536418_a5057dc8-3a3e-42d9-929b-9a5d3f86665f.jpg?v=1746264067"},{"product_id":"the-innovators-how-a-group-of-inventors-hackers-geniuses-and-geeks-created-the-d-9781471138805","title":"The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe author of the massively bestselling Steve Jobs biography writes the whole history of the digital age   Read more\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Walter Isaacson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎\n                                            Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd; UK ed. edition (6 October 2015); Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback – 6 October 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎\n                                            English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎\n                                            978-1471138805\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎\n                                            19.8 x 3.6 x 13.2 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎\n                                            386 g\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter Isaacson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51283444629806,"sku":"‎\n                                            978-1471138805","price":1088.01,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/The_Innovators_How_a_Group_of_Inventors_Hackers_Ge.jpg?v=1763389910"},{"product_id":"invent-and-wander-the-collected-writing-the-collected-writings-of-jeff-bezos-with-an-introduction-by-walter-isaacson","title":"Invent and Wander: The Collected Writing: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn Jeff Bezos's own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin.In this collection of Jeff Bezos's writings—his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters, plus numerous speeches and interviews that provide insight into his background, his work, and the evolution of his ideas—you'll gain an insider's view of the why and how of his success. Spanning a range of topics across business and public policy, from innovation and customer obsession to climate change and outer space, this book provides a rare glimpse into how Bezos thinks about the world and where the future might take us.Written in a direct, down-to-earth style, Invent and Wander offers readers a master class in business values, strategy, and execution:The importance of a Day 1 mindsetWhy \"it's all about the long term\"What it really means to be customer obsessedHow to start new businesses and create significant organic growth in an already successful companyWhy culture is an imperativeHow a willingness to fail is closely connected to innovationWhat the Covid-19 pandemic has taught usEach insight offers new ways of thinking through today's challenges—and more importantly, tomorrow's—and the never-ending urgency of striving ahead, never resting on one's laurels. Everyone from CEOs of the Fortune 100 to entrepreneurs just setting up shop to the millions who use Amazon's products and services in their homes or businesses will come to understand the principles that have driven the success of one of the most important innovators of our time.Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos is co-published by PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, and Harvard Business Review Press.   Read more\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Walter Issacson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎\n                                            Harvard Business Review Press (17 November 2020); Harvard Business Review Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover – 17 November 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎\n                                            English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎\n                                            978-1647820718\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎\n                                            14.99 x 2.54 x 22.35 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎\n                                            1 kg 50 g\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter Issacson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51653407801646,"sku":"‎\n                                            978-1647820718","price":1705.5,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/978-1647820718_cover_1768908119834.jpg?v=1768908120"},{"product_id":"elon-musk-by-walter-isaacson-9781398527492","title":"Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson","description":"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.\n\nWhen Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.\n\nHis father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive.\n\nAt the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. “I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,” he said.\n\nIt was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.\n\nFor two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?\n\nRead more","brand":"Amazon Import","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51791992291630,"sku":"1398527491","price":1424.05,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/b50e0d2c15c5588ec3ec5057b13c93ae.jpg?v=1772218054"},{"product_id":"einstein-genius","title":"Einstein: Genius","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein from the author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin.**Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush** How did Einstein’s mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk – a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate – became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marvelling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits and free individuals.  Einstein, the classic No.1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century,‘An illuminating delight’ New York Times‘Dramatic and revelatory’ Sunday Times‘Beautifully written’ Sunday Telegraph‘Astonishing’ Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52193181794606,"sku":null,"price":2595.4,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/81aYAGAlP7L._SL1500.jpg?v=1781301681"},{"product_id":"einstein-genius-1","title":"Einstein: Genius","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein from the author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin.**Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush** How did Einstein’s mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk – a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate – became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marvelling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits and free individuals.  Einstein, the classic No.1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century,‘An illuminating delight’ New York Times‘Dramatic and revelatory’ Sunday Times‘Beautifully written’ Sunday Telegraph‘Astonishing’ Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52193181860142,"sku":null,"price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/81aYAGAlP7L._SL1500_44a4f86d-51a2-4e56-bd23-ae0bb0cae7de.jpg?v=1781301686"},{"product_id":"einstein-genius-2","title":"Einstein: Genius","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein from the author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin.**Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush** How did Einstein’s mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk – a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate – became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marvelling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits and free individuals.  Einstein, the classic No.1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century,‘An illuminating delight’ New York Times‘Dramatic and revelatory’ Sunday Times‘Beautifully written’ Sunday Telegraph‘Astonishing’ Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52193181892910,"sku":null,"price":1049.75,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/81aYAGAlP7L._SL1500_a6604257-d96a-4c31-9cdb-ff44906a2bdf.jpg?v=1781301689"},{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin","title":"Benjamin Franklin","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution.In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197300338990,"sku":null,"price":3634.7,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/91b4Rhig49L._SL1500.jpg?v=1781389950"},{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-1","title":"Benjamin Franklin","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution.In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197300371758,"sku":null,"price":845.5,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/91b4Rhig49L._SL1500_57f6c7d0-2836-4b71-82fa-9d55c1d4dd29.jpg?v=1781389954"},{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-2","title":"Benjamin Franklin","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution.In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197300404526,"sku":null,"price":1210.3,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/9320\/6574\/files\/91b4Rhig49L._SL1500_4d91553b-03c4-41aa-b070-db805aa5974e.jpg?v=1781389958"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookalley.in\/collections\/walter-isaacson.oembed","provider":"Bookalley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}