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ELON MUSK











THE ASTONISHINGLY INTIMATE STORY OF THE MOST FASCINATING AND CONTROVERSIAL
INNOVATOR OF OUR ERA.

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WALTER ISAACSON

Walter Isaacson is a Professor of History at Tulane. He has been the editor of
Time Magazine, the CEO and Chairman of CNN, and the CEO of the Aspen Institute.
He is an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg, a financial services firm based
in New York City, a cohost of the PBS show Amanpour & Co., a contributor to
CNBC, and host of the podcast “Trailblazers, from Dell Technologies.”

He is the author of Elon Musk (2023), The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene
Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (2021), Leonardo da Vinci (2017), The
Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital
Revolution (2014), Steve Jobs (2011), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007),
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992),
and coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).

Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952 in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Harvard
College and Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes
Scholar. He began his career at The Sunday Times in London and then New Orleans’
Times-Picayune. He joined TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent,
national editor, and editor of digital media before becoming the magazine’s 14th
editor in 1996. He became chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president
and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003.

He is chair emeritus of Teach for America. From 2005-2007 he was the vice-chair
of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which oversaw the rebuilding after
Hurricane Katrina. He was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the
chair of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio
Free Europe, and other international broadcasts of the United States, a position
he held from 2009 to 2012.

In 2023, he was awarded the National Humanities Award by President Joe Biden.
Isaacson is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
Royal Society of the Arts, and the American Philosophical Society. He serves on
the board of United Airlines, Halliburton Labs, the New Orleans City Planning
Commission, the New Orleans Tricentennial Commission, Bloomberg Philanthropies,
the Society of American Historians, and My Brother’s Keeper Alliance.



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