American Sketches : : Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
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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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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xi, 285 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781439180648
1439180644
9781439183441
1439183449
SUBJECTS
Isaacson, Walter.
Biographers -- Biography.
United States -- Anecdotes.
United States -- History -- Anecdotes.