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92/100Critics
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94/100Author:
Walter Isaacson
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
September 12, 2023
From the author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs, a biography of the controversial tech innovator and world's richest man.
What The Reviewers Say
How do you take the full measure of an increasingly troubled figure whose life’s work and legacy still hang in the balance? At stake is not just Musk’s place in history, but also his place in the present and future. If Isaacson fails to pin that down in a satisfying way, it might be because Musk is such a fast-moving target, and Isaacson prioritized revealing anecdotes and behind-the-scenes reportage over a sophisticated critical lens.
As we learn throughout the book, the Musks are persistent fabulists, prone to embellishment and fabrication, and this becomes the first of many narrative sequences that the reader must consider with an eye to truth versus narrative convenience.
A book that can scarcely contain its subject, in that it raises infinitely more questions than it answers.
An engaging chronicle.
