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Review round-up: Is Steve Jobs' biography accurate?
Walter Isaacson's authorised biography of Steve Jobs details the life, times and legacy of the co-founder of Apple who is regarded by some as the greatest entrepreneur of his generation.
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But reviewers are questioning whether it is a true representation of the man.
Steve jobs biography review guardian
Joe Nocera says in the New York Times that the biography doesn't hold back at showing Steve Jobs' "incorrigible bullying, belittling and lying". However, he says it doesn't question Jobs' notion that this conduct was a way of getting the best out of people.
That may be, he says, because Walter Isaacson was too close to his subject:
"Part of the problem, I think, is that the bond that developed between subject and writer made it nearly impossible for Isaacson to get the kind of critical distance he needed to take his subject's true measure.He didn't just interview Jobs; he watched him die. There is a moving scene near the end of the book, with an emaciated Jobs, lying