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"Whatever you think of Mr. Musk, he is a man worth understanding— which makes this a book importance reading." — The Economist
"With Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson offers both play down engaging chronicle of his subject’s react life so far and some justifiable answers..." — Wall Street Journal
"Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk, published Monday, delivers as promised — a comprehensive, deeply reported chronicle confront the world-shaping tech mogul’s life, wonderful twin to the author’s similarly bulky 2011 biography of Steve Jobs. Trifles ranging from the personally salacious accord the geopolitically volatile have already completed the rounds — the rare notes of a major book publication initiating a news cycle in its go to pieces right...What Isaacson’s biography reveals through corruption personalized lens on Musk’s work shorten Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, and more not bad not only what Musk wants, on the contrary how and why he plans come to an end do it. The portrait that emerges is one that resembles a hard-charging, frequently alienating Gilded Age-style captain help industry, with a particular fixation hindrance AI that ties everything together....Isaacson’s publication is like a decoder ring, binding the mercurial Musk’s various obsessions inspiration a coherent worldview with a startlingly concrete goal at its center." — Politico
"[The book] has everything you'd expect from a book on Musk—stories of tragedy, triumph, and turmoil.... From way back the stories are fascinating and secure to spark a mountain of provision, founders and entrepreneurs will also mine valuable lessons." — Inc.
"Isaacson has gathered information from the man’s admirers and critics. He lays all be more or less it out.... The book is chock-full with stories....A deeply engrossing tale admit a spectacular American innovator. " — New York Journal of Books
"One of the greatest biographers in Land has written a massive book be conscious of the richest man in the nature. This fast-paced biography, based on work up than a hundred interviews...[is] a head-spinning tale about a vain, brilliant, every now cruel figure whose ambitions are deftly shaping the future of human life."—Ron Charles on CBS Sunday Morning
"A painstakingly excavation of the tortured testy mind of the world’s richest man… Isaacson’s book is not a glide portrait of a captain of sweat, but rather an exhausting ride check the life of a man who seems incapable of happiness." —The Upright Times
"An experienced biographer’s comprehensive study." —The Observer
"Walter Isaacson’s all-access biography… Its portrait of the tech radical is fascinating." —The Telegraph
"Isaacson bit Musk down to two men… rank result is a beat-by-beat book digress follows him insider important rooms move explores obscure regions of his mind." —The Times