60 Minutes Interviews Steve Jobs Biographer Walter Isaacson
The first-ever authorized biography of Steve Jobs is set to be released next week and Steve Kroft with 60 Minutes will have a sneak peek on Sunday when they interview the author, Walter Isaacson.
The book is a culmination of over 40 interviews with the man himself over the last two years. Originally set for release in March of 2012, the publisher first bumped delivery to this November when Jobs retired from Apple and later to October with news of his death earlier this month.
On October 24, 2011 we will get the closest and most intimate look at Steve Jobs that the world has ever had.
With news of Jobs’ retirement, the not-yet-released book rocketed up the best-seller charts landing at number 2 with ease. After his death placement was secured in the number 1 slot. With Christmas around the corner and this title on just about every Apple-loving geek’s wish list, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it sit securely in the top selling spot for some time to come.
The authorized Jobs biography is currently available for pre-order through Amazon as well as through iBooks.
When we lost him a few short weeks ago, we mourned him like an old friend. I am wondering what the reaction will be once we know more about him. An intensely private man during his life, this book may connect us to him in a way we hadn’t actually expected and we might start feeling the pain of our loss all over again.
The interview with Isaacson should be an interesting one. With a considerable resume spanning multiple decades, Isaacson began his professional writing career working for TIME Magazine in 1978. Most reports give his biographical accomplishments, stating his works on Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger. I was surprised to find out that he is much more than a literary contributor.
Since 2005, Isaacson has enjoyed high-profile appointments to political endeavors including being vice-chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, chairman of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership, vice-chair of the Partners for a New Beginning and co-chair of the U.S.-Vietnamese Dialogue on Agent Orange. Nonpartisan appointments include being chairman of the board of Teach for America and of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. As if he wasn’t busy enough, Isaacson is also on the boards of United Airlines, Tulane University, Overseers of Harvard University, the Bloomberg Family Foundation, and the Society of American Historians.
I’m excited to read the Jobs’ biography but at the moment I’m actually thinking somebody should be doing a biography on Isaacson as well!