Tuesday, March 9, 2010

American Sketches

American Sketches: great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane by Walter Isaacson 
285 pp.

I picked this one up because I enjoyed Isaacson's biography of Einstein. This book is a collection of essays & articles written by Isaacson over many years. Most were written for Time magazine where he served as managing editor. The people portrayed in these sketches range from Ben Franklin to Bill Gates to Woody Allen. I think my favorite is the one he wrote for the 100th anniversary of the grade school he attended in New Orleans in which he described the important lessons he learned while playing in the small grove of trees that was the school playground.

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