American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
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xi, 285 pages ; 25 cm.
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
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920.073
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
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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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