About the Author

Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.

Reviews

"An illuminating delight . . . a warm, insightful, affectionate portrait."--The New York Times "Brilliant"--Vanity Fair "A triumph."--PEOPLE "A narrative masterpiece."--The New York Sun "A painstaking and reliable biography."--The Washington Post Book World