RaveThe Globe and Mail (CA)He does a thoughtful and speedy job of getting us to the Apple part of the story ... There is blessedly little psychoanalysis, although Isaacson strangely over-emphasizes a position Jobs once held at an Oregon fruit orchard, while showing how Jobs\'s post-adoption anxieties affected him throughout his life ... Isaacson tells this story – much of which has been told before, but never in such rich, personal detail – very well ... he has crafted a persuasive, authoritative and unadorned book ... While Isaacson is respectful of the man\'s accomplishments, there is no sign here of the \'OMG IT\'S STEVE JOBS\' fan-boyishness that plagues much writing about the charismatic Jobs. Instead, what we have is a nuanced portrait of a complex and difficult man, someone who could inspire subordinates to world-changing products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad; but also someone who forgot family birthdays, denied paternity of his out-of-wedlock daughter for years, and could publicly praise employees as \'geniuses\' and then berate them with vulgarities, often in the same conversation ... the first full biography of this flawed and complex man, the first to truly show him in the round.
