Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk

Name: Elon Musk
Brand: Antikvariát Avion
SKU: 4113807
Price: 399 CZK
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ISBN: 9788072529919

2023 | Nakladatelství Práh

#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller #2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestsellerSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMESEpic feats. Epic failures. An epic story.Walter Isaacson charts Elon Musk's journey from humble be…ginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet - but is Musk a genius or a jerk? From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era - a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue and charismatic fantasist. His father's impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022 - after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth - Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. 'I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,' he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year's resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world's ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.For two years, Walter Isaacson had unprecedented access. He shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? The book includes over 100 integrated black and white images. #1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller #2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestsellerSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIM…ES AND FINANCIAL TIMESEpic feats. Epic failures. An epic story.Walter Isaacson charts Elon Musk's journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet - but is Musk a genius or a jerk? From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era - a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue and charismatic fantasist. His father's impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022 - after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth - Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. 'I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,' he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year's resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world's ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.For two years, Walter Isaacson had unprecedented access. He shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? The book includes over 100 integrated black and white images.

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O knize

Stav:

Dobrý, až velmi dobrý, lehce zkosený hřbet

Vazba:

pevná s obálkou

Počet stran:

698

Jazyk:

česky

ISBN10:

8072529919

ISBN:

9788072529919

Překladatel:

Tomáš Jeník

Vydání:

V českém jazyce vydání první

Vydáno v:

Praha

Vystaveno:

18. 3. 2026 17:8

Číslo položky:

1663761

O autorovi

Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson je americký novinář a spisovatel. V minulosti byl ředitelem CNN a editorem v časopisu Time. Svou kariéru začal jako novinář v londýnských Sunday Times, ale už v roce 1978 začal pracovat v časopise Time jako politický dopisovatel. V roce 1996 se stal editorem. O pět let později se stal ředitelem prestižní zpravodajské televize CNN. Je autorem životopisů Alberta Einsteina, amerického státníka Benjamina Franklina, nebo politika a diplomata Henryho Kissingera. Walter Isaacson dlouho žil ve Washingtonu, D.C., kde působil jako generální ředitel amerického nezávislého think-tanku Aspen Institute. Aspen Institute se dlouhodobě věnuje podpoře politiky založené na hodnotách, myšlenkách a ideálech dobré společnosti , jež propaguje prostřednictvím seminářů a konferencí. V současnosti žije ve svém rodném městě New Orleans a přednáší historii na Tulanově univerzitě. Autorsky se Isaacson zabývá literaturou faktu. Napsal mj. životopis Steva Jobse, který v roce 2011 vyšel také v českém překladu. Pracoval na něm od roku 2005 a jedná se o jedinou autobiografii, na které se Steve Jobs podílel, a je tak možné Waltera Isaacsona označit za Jobsova výhradního životopisce.

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