American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane

American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane

ISBN: 1439180644

ISBN 13: 9781439180648

Author: Walter Isaacson

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In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and other interesting characters he has chronicled both as biographer and journalist. He writes also about how he became a writer, the challenges for journalism in the digital age, and offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans.