The first review of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is in, and it’s a good one.
Writing in the New York Times, critic Janet Maslin says the 630-page tome is “clear, elegant and concise.”
“Steve Jobs” greatly admires its subject. But its most adulatory passages are not about people. Offering a combination of tech criticism and promotional hype, Mr. Isaacson describes the arrival of each new product right down to Mr. Jobs’s theatrical introductions and the advertising campaigns. But if the individual bits of hoopla seem excessive, their cumulative effect is staggering. Here is an encyclopedic survey of all that Mr. Jobs accomplished, replete with the passion and excitement that it deserves.
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