Walter Isaacson

33 BOOKS

Walter Isaacson

Author · Journalist · Historian

About

Walter Seff Isaacson is an American journalist who has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna, and Elon Musk. As of 2024, Isaacson is a professor at Tulane University and, since 2018, an interviewer for the PBS and CNN news show Amanpour & Company.

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SHELF · 01

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

Fantasyland

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

Editing Humanity

Altered Inheritance

CRISPR People

The Internet Is Not the Answer

SHELF · 02

On The Road: A Traveler's Tale

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Only Game in Town

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

The Moviegoer

The Odyssey

Poor Richard's Almanack

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

World Order

SHELF · 03

Whiplash

Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps

Holy Bible

The Fabric of the Cosmos

Evolution of Physics

Einstein’s Dreams

Einstein in Love

Future Forward

The End of Illness

A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine

SHELF · 04

Play Nice But Win

Genius Makers

The Odyssey of Homer