American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane

American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane by Simon & Schuster Audio
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Conventional wisdom is stoutly defended in this staid collection of essays, mostly culled from the author's newspaper and magazine articles. Isaacson (Einstein) has a knack for in findinging the middle ground and the incontestable truism in any matter. Thus, Benjamin Franklin's existence presentations us that “democracy requires pragmatic individuals who can find popular floor,” but also recognize when “to take a stand.” Colin Powell is “an exemplar of the balance” between realism and idealism that overseas coverage demands. A piece on Time cofounder Henry Luce extols “common sense” over “knee-jerk ideological faiths.. Read more American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane

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By the creator of the perfectselling biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, a mirrored image on: What are the foundations of creativity? What makes for excellent leadership?

In this assortment of essays, Walter Isaacson replicates on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and various other larger-than-life characters he has chronicled as a biographer and a journalist.

Isaacson reflects on how he changed into a writer, the educatings he learned from various people he met, and the challenges he sees for journalism within the digital age. He supplys dwelling tributes to his place of birth of New Orleans, which each prior to and after Hurricane Katrina offered the various ingredients for a ingenious tradition, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who used to be an early mentor.