The House of Morgan - An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

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.

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index

CONTENTS
Parents and Childhood 
II.  Dunfermline and America 
III.  Pittsburgh and Work 
IV.  Colonel Anderson and Books 
V.  The Telegraph Office 
VI.  Railroad Service 
VII.  Superintendent of the Pennsylvania 
VIII.  Civil War Period 
IX.  Bridge-Building 
X.  The Iron Works 
XI.  New York as Headquarters 
XII.  Business Negotiations 
XIII.  The Age of Steel 
XIV.  Partners, Books, and Travel 
XV.  Coaching Trip and Marriage 
XVI.  Mills and the Men 
XVII.  The Homestead Strike 
XVIII.  Problems of Labor 
XIX.  The "Gospel of Wealth" 
XX.  Educational and Pension Funds 
XXI.  The Peace Palace and Pittencrieff 
XXII.  Matthew Arnold and Others 
XXIII.  British Political Leaders 
XXIV.  Gladstone and Morley 
XXV.  Herbert Spencer and His Disciple 
XXVI.  Blaine and Harrison 
XXVII.  Washington Diplomacy 
XXVIII.  Hay and McKinley 
XXIX.  Meeting the German Emperor 
   Bibliography 
   Index