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'Steve Jobs' review: Walter Isaacson's biography mesmerizes

'Steve Jobs' review: Walter Isaacson's biography mesmerizes

Walter Isaacson weaves a full and often revealing tale that brings 'Steve Jobs' to life through interviews with the late Apple visionary and those in his inner circle. He was an abandoned child who grew up with the unshakable belief that he was destined to be a prince. How arrogant and sensible of him.

 

Rin Tin Tin — By Susan Orlean — Book Review

Rin Tin Tin — By Susan Orlean — Book Review

Do dogs deserve biographies? In “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend,” Susan Orlean answers that question resoundingly in the affirmative, while also asking a harder one: Can a dog deserve an Oscar? At the first Academy Awards, presented in 1929, the charismatic German shepherd who fought off gangs of villains in movies like “Clash of the Wolves” and “Jaws of Steel” won the vote count for best actor, but the Academy blinked, recalculated and gave the honor instead to Emil Jannings. Not that the public would have necessarily protested an Oscar for Rin Tin Tin.

 

"Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin" paints a scathing portrait

A biography of Sarah Palin by a former staffer depicts Palin as ill-prepared, immature, vindictive, and unethical. Palin's supporters say the tell-all biography by Frank Bailey is "fiction" created by a disgruntled former employee.

 

Book Review Preview: The Publisher - Henry Luce and His American Century - By Alan Brinkley

Alan Brinkley’s biography of Henry Luce, the creator of Time and Life, who used his magazines to push political favorites and promote U.S. intervention in the world.

 

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