Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll

For more than four decades, Bruce Springsteen has reflected the heart and soul of America with a career that includes twenty Grammy Awards, more than 120 million albums sold, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award. He has also become an influential voice in American culture and politics, inspiring President Barack Obama to admit: “I’m the president, but he’s the Boss.”

Built from years of research and unparalleled access to its subject and his inner circle, Bruce presents the most revealing account yet of a man laden with family tragedy, a tremendous dedication to his artistry, and an all-consuming passion for fame and influence. With this book, the E Street Band members finally bare their feelings about their abrupt dismissal in 1989, and how Springsteen’s ambivalence nearly capsized their 1999 reunion. Carlin deftly traces Springsteen’s often harrowing personal life: from his lower working- class childhood in Freehold, New Jersey, through his stubborn climb to fame and tangled romantic life, and finally to his quest to conquer the demons that nearly destroyed his father.

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.  

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

A wealthy, eccentric English gentleman named Phileas Fogg accepts a £20,000 wager to circle the globe in 80 days. Phileas and his loyal valet, Passepartout, immediately set off for their high adventure, which whisks them to exotic locales in a race against time. But when a bank robbery results in Phileas Fogg being fingered for the crime, a relentless detective trails him as they circumnavigate the globe. This Middleton Classics edition includes 52 illustrations.

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

in this book

THE ADVENTURE OF SILVER BLAZE
THE ADVENTURE OF THE CARDBOARD BOX
THE ADVENTURE OF THE YELLOW FACE
THE ADVENTURE OF THE STOCK-BROKER'S CLERK
THE ADVENTURE OF THE "GLORIA SCOTT"
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MUSGRAVE RITUAL
THE ADVENTURE OF THE REIGATE SQUIRES
THE ADVENTURE OF THE CROOKED MAN
THE ADVENTURE OF THE RESIDENT PATIENT
THE ADVENTURE OF THE GREEK INTERPRETER
THE ADVENTURE OF THE NAVAL TREATY
THE ADVENTURE OF THE FINAL PROBLEM

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