by Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs is the authorized biography of the eccentric Apple founder. I can't really offer much comment on the contents because it would be like judging how Steve lived his life. To be fair with Isaacson, he really made an effort to cover every aspect of Steve's life, from his early childhood and being a young free-sprited man, to founding Apple and his subsequent ouster, to picking himself up again and making his way back, and then to his sickness and his eventual death. Isaacson has a rare talent to tell the stories as if we are directly communicating with Jobs. He didn't try to sugarcoat the events, but he sometimes offered his own observations so that us as readers would understand Steve better.
Much has been said about Steve's perfectionist and aggressive management style, but by reading this book people would appreciate where Jobs' behavior is coming from. His adoptive father, who worked as a mechanic, valued the importance of aesthetic designs, to which Steve has carried in his career.
