Posted on October - 19 - 2011
New biography of Steve Jobs paints a man of contradictions
Steve Jobs was a rebel and a corporate executive. He was profane and poetic. He was known for his obsessive control of Apple (AAPL), from the design of the latest gadget to what kind of box would contain it.
Yet Jobs took a hands-off approach to writer Walter Isaacson, who was given access to Jobs, his family, friends and colleagues for the biography “Steve Jobs,” to be released Monday.
“I know there will be a lot in your book I won’t like,” he told the writer. “That’s good. Then it won’t seem like an in-house book. I won’t read it for a while because I don’t want to get mad. Maybe I will read it in a year — if I’m still around.”
Here are some revealing excerpts from the biography, “Steve Jobs,” a copy of which was obtained by the Mercury News before its official release on Monday:
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