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ICon
Sign in to saveiCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business is an unauthorized biography by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon about the return of Steve Jobs to Apple Inc. in 1997. It was published in 2005.
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- Author
- Frederick Forsyth
- First published
- 1996
- Editions
- 5
- Subjects
- Fiction, Politics and government, Spies, Large type books, Moscow (russia), fiction, Russia (federation), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Monk, jason (fictitious character), fiction
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- literary work
- Narrative location
- United States
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- inception
- 2005-00-00
- publication date
- 2005-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- ICon: Steve Jobs
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iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business is an unauthorized biography by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon about the return of Steve Jobs to Apple Inc. in 1997. It was published in 2005.
The book's title is a pun with one connotation that of Jobs as an icon with attributes to be admired, while carrying the negative interpretation as I-(am a)-Con, as in a con man, criticized for charisma used in harmful ways such as the "reality distortion field". The non-capitalized "i" at the beginning is also in reference to many of Apple's products, such as the iPhone, iMac, iPod, and iTunes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ICon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.