Blumenthal, Karen. Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different. New York: Feiwel and Friends, (2012).
ISBN: 978-1-250-01461-0, e-book, $6.76.
Furnishing a timeline that consists not only of a man’s life, but the life of modern day technology, Karen Blumenthal’s biography of the late, great Steve Jobs is a brilliant telling of how what a person thinks can change lives. Building off a speech Jobs gave for a graduation ceremony at Stanford University, Blumenthal outlines Jobs’ life through three significant stories that Jobs’ himself believed told all we really needed to know about his life. From adoption, through journeys of enlightenment, to failure, and eventually success, Job is illustrated as a very driven man. In this biography Blumenthal shows just how ambitious Jobs was, how his love for technology and business was nurtured by those around him, and how he used any means necessary to push his peers to their potential. He is flawed, he has made mistakes, he has driven those closest away from him, but he was able to learn from his mistakes, swallow his pride, and provide the world with technology that most of us can no longer live without.
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