American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane / Walter Isaacson.
In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2009.
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Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Physical Description: | xi, 285 pages ; 25 cm |
Format: | Book |
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In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. Isaacson also describes the joys of the "so-called writing life" and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age. |
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Call Number: | E176 .I8 2009 |
ISBN: | 9781439180648 1439180644 9781439183458 (ebk.) 1439183457 (ebk.) 1439183449 9781439183441 |