Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson

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American Sketches
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American Sketches
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Cotter Smith
  • Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (1423 ratings)
(1423 ratings)
One of America’s most versatile writers, author of bestselling biographies such as Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, has assembled a gallery of portraits of (mostly) Americans that celebreate genius, talent, and versatility, and traces his own... Read more
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Boyd Gaines
  • Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2003
  • Language: English
  • (129484 ratings)
(129484 ratings)
In 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... Read more
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Nelson Runger
  • Length: 24 hours 40 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (129484 ratings)
(129484 ratings)
In 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... Read more
Einstein
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Einstein
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Edward Herrmann
  • Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (162596 ratings)
(162596 ratings)
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/MemoirThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy,... Read more
Einstein
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Einstein
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Edward Herrmann
  • Length: 21 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (162596 ratings)
(162596 ratings)
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/MemoirThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy,... Read more
Invent and Wander
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Invent and Wander
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
  • Publisher: Ascent Audio
  • Publish date: November 17, 2020
  • Language: English
  • (4762 ratings)
(4762 ratings)
In 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... Read more
Kissinger
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Kissinger
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
  • Length: 34 hours 30 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (3288 ratings)
(3288 ratings)
By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a 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... Read more
Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Alfred Molina
  • Length: 34 hours 2 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (85275 ratings)
(85275 ratings)
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an... Read more
Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Alfred Molina
  • Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (85275 ratings)
(85275 ratings)
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an... Read more
Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Dylan Baker
  • Length: 25 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (1134447 ratings)
(1134447 ratings)
2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the YearWalter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over... Read more
Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Dylan Baker
  • Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (1134447 ratings)
(1134447 ratings)
2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the YearWalter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over... Read more
The Code Breaker
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The Code Breaker
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Kathe Mazur
  • Length: 32 hours 9 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2021
  • Language: English
  • (2 ratings)
(2 ratings)
A 2022 Audie Award FinalistA Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel... Read more
The Code Breaker — Young Readers Edition
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The Code Breaker — Young Readers Edition
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Kathe Mazur
  • Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2022
  • Language: English
  • (27 ratings)
(27 ratings)
Walter Isaacson’s #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers!When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in... Read more
The Innovators
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The Innovators
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • Length: 17 hours 28 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (30291 ratings)
(30291 ratings)
2015 Audie Award Finalist for NonfictionFollowing his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving”... Read more
The Innovators
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The Innovators
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (30291 ratings)
(30291 ratings)
2015 Audie Award Finalist for NonfictionFollowing his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving”... Read more
The Wise Men
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The Wise Men
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Jonathan Reese
  • Length: 33 hours 25 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
Six close friends 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... Read more

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How the Mighty Fall “Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.”–Jim Collins Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amid the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall ... Read Book
Give Us Liberty Former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and leading organizer of the Tea Party movement, Dick Armey offers a Tea Party Manifesto: Give Us Liberty. Written with Matt Kibbee, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, Give Us Liberty defines the issues and agenda of the wildfire grassroots movement that is electrifying the nation, as it calls on fiscal conservatives to take back ... Read Book
Stolen by the Alpha Wolf The arrogant vampire kings have always proclaimed themselves to be the rulers of all the non-humans making war between the species inevitable. In order to win, it is imperative that the shifters steal the chosen human female. The alpha wolf will take her for himself thus weakening the position of the bastard kings. No heirs means no future for the vampires.Something Ward didn’t bank on was that ... Read Book
Only the Beautiful A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune that tear them apart by the USA Today bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the War.   California, 1938—When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the ... Read Book
Secret Circle Vol I: The Initiation The Circle’s power has lured her home. . . . Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie longs for her old life. Even so, she feels a strange kinship to a terrifying group of teens who seem to rule her school. Initiated into the coven of witches that’s controlled New Salem for hundreds of years, she’s drawn into the Secret Circle, a thrill that’s both intoxicating ... Read Book
Shakeup Stone Barrington must track down an enemy intent on disturbing law and order in the latest action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Upon returning from a dangerous coastal adventure, Stone Barrington is looking forward to some normalcy with the leading lady in his life. But when a grisly crime arrives on his doorstep, along with some suspicious new clients eager for ... Read Book
Within These Lines “Within These Lines is a moving story of love, hope, and family set against the dark history of Japanese internment in America. This book had me captivated!” —Maureen McQuerry, YALSA award-winning author of The Peculiars Evalina Cassano’s life in an Italian-American family in 1941 is quiet and ordinary … until she falls in love with Taichi Hamasaki, the son of ... Read Book
Uncharted Christy Award-winning author Angela Hunt delivers an unforgettable, critically acclaimed tale that explores how materialism, beauty, and prestige often mask reality. Every year for two decades, David Payne invites his five closest college friends to travel with him on a weeklong humanitarian mission. And each year, they are too busy. This year, however, when David’s funeral re-unites them, they ... Read Book
The History of Physics How does the physics we know today-a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry-link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind’s place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial ... Read Book
Hidden Truth Alissa never believed in magic. But then she went to the Hold, a legendary fortress where human Keepers once learned magic from enigmatic Masters. Under the tutelage of the last surviving Master, Alissa discovered that she had inherited her father’s magical ability. But the Hold is ruled by Bailic, the renegade Keeper who seized the First Truth, a book of magic he will use to harness the might ... Read Book
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