In a special Time Magazine cover story, a preview of his forthcoming biography
For the seventh and perhaps the last time, Steve Jobs appears this week on the cover of Time Magazine, a special issue that includes a photo essay by Diana Walker, an Apple (AAPL) retrospective by Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman, and a six-page essay by Walter Isaccson, whose biography of Jobs — the first written with his cooperation — is due out in a few weeks.
Isaacson’s Steve Jobs has been a bestseller on Amazon.com from the day it became available for preorder. In a preview of what’s to come, his essay describes the day Jobs pitched him the idea for the book:
In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from him. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I’d worked. But now that I was no longer at either of those places, I hadn’t heard from him much. We talked a bit about the Aspen Institute, which I had recently joined, and I invited him to speak at our summer campus in Colorado. He’d be happy to come, he said, but not to be onstage. He wanted, instead, to take a walk so we could talk.
The book
Here is the book: Steve Jobs