Jobs Merged Hippie, Tech Culture, Battled Bozos to Hone Vision

Steve Jobs was a remarkable man. Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” is a remarkable book, fully capturing its brilliant, maddening, sometimes appalling, always fascinating subject.

Written in a short span as its prime source lay in the grip of mortal illness, “Steve Jobs” shows no signs of haste in its reportage, writing or critical thinking. Its sole concession to the unusual circumstances of its creation is that, unlike Isaacson’s previous biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, it doesn’t attempt to place Jobs in a broader historical context. The focus here is on the man, what he achieved and how he achieved it.