PanThe Los Angeles TimesAs we learn throughout the book, the Musks are persistent fabulists, prone to embellishment and fabrication, and this becomes the first of many narrative sequences that the reader must consider with an eye to truth versus narrative convenience ... Isaacson’s truth is, above all, selective ... Silences...come to haunt the capacious hull of Elon Musk — to the point that they risk drowning out the project altogether ... The narrative is filled with moments of...dissonance ... The author will unearth unflattering personal anecdotes and share stories about the subject’s capacity to be cruel. In exchange, the subject’s greatness will be treated as an assumption ... No biography can or should be totally comprehensive, but it’s pretty easy to conclude which sorts of topics and conversations Isaacson decided it would be best to avoid altogether. I started Elon Musk wondering if the world needed another book positioning Musk as a great man...and finished thinking it’s time to retire the entire genre of \'great innovator\' biographies, period.
