American Sketches Abridged : Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
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Compact discs.
Read by Cotter Smith.
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, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 6 sound discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781442304079
1442304073
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Smith, Cotter.
SUBJECTS
Isaacson, Walter.
Biographers -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Anecdotes.
United States -- History -- Anecdotes.