Among the things I would not have shared here previously, a link giving this man one more iota of attention. But, first, it is a biography by one of our best biographers, and he has earned the benefit of our doubt.
Second, this review by one of our best historians captures my own concerns about this biographer's subject so clearly, and by extension raises important questions about the biographer's approach, that I must share:
How Elon Musk Went from Superhero to Supervillain
Walter Isaacson's new biography depicts a man who wields more power than almost any other person on the planet but seems estranged from humanity itself.
In 2021, Elon Musk became the world's richest man (no woman came close), and Time named him Person of the Year: "This is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit: clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P. T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and Watchmen's Doctor Manhattan, the brooding, blue-skinned man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars."
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