Benjamin franklin and albert einstein, this is the exclusive biography of steve jobs

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Scott, Foresman, 1989.
Knopper, Steve. 
Appetite for Self-Destruction.
Free Press, 2009.
Kot, Greg. 
Ripped.
Scribner, 2009.
Kunkel, Paul. 
AppleDesign.
Graphis Inc., 1997.
Levy, Steven. 
Hackers.
Doubleday, 1984.
———. 
Insanely Great.
Viking Penguin, 1994.
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The Perfect Thing.
Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Linzmayer, Owen. 
Apple Confidential 2.0.
No Starch Press, 2004.
Malone, Michael. 
Infinite Loop.
Doubleday, 1999.
Markoff, John. 
What the Dormouse Said.
Viking Penguin, 2005.
McNish, Jacquie. 
The Big Score.
Doubleday Canada, 1998.
Moritz, Michael. 
Return to the Little Kingdom.
Overlook Press, 2009. Originally published, 
without prologue and epilogue, as 
The Little Kingdom
(Morrow, 1984).
Nocera, Joe. 
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Portfolio, 2008.
Paik, Karen. 
To Infinity and Beyond!
Chronicle Books, 2007.
Price, David. 
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Knopf, 2008.
Rose, Frank. 
West of Eden.
Viking, 1989.
Sculley, John. 
Odyssey.
Harper & Row, 1987.
Sheff, David. “Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs.” 
Playboy
, February 1985.
Simpson, Mona. 
Anywhere but Here.
Knopf, 1986.
———. 
A Regular Guy.
Knopf, 1996.
Smith, Douglas, and Robert Alexander. 
Fumbling the Future.
Morrow, 1988.
Stross, Randall. 
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NOTES
CHAPTER 1: CHILDHOOD
The Adoption:
Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell, Mona Simpson, Del Yocam, Greg 
Calhoun, Chrisann Brennan, Andy Hertzfeld. Moritz, 44–45; Young, 16–17; Jobs, Smithsonian 
oral history; Jobs, Stanford commencement address; Andy Behrendt, “Apple Computer Mogul’s 
Roots Tied to Green Bay,” (Green Bay) 
Press Gazette
, Dec. 4, 2005; Georgina Dickinson, “Dad 
Waits for Jobs to iPhone,” 
New York Post
and 
The Sun
(London), Aug. 27, 2011; Mohannad Al-
Haj Ali, “Steve Jobs Has Roots in Syria,” 
Al Hayat,
Jan. 16, 2011; Ulf Froitzheim, “Porträt Steve 
Jobs,” 
Unternehmen
, Nov. 26, 2007.
Silicon Valley:
Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell. Jobs, Smithsonian oral history; 
Moritz, 46; Berlin, 155–177; Malone, 21–22.
School:
Interview with Steve Jobs. Jobs, Smithsonian oral history; Sculley, 166; Malone, 11, 
28, 72; Young, 25, 34–35; Young and Simon, 18; Moritz, 48, 73–74. Jobs’s address was originally 
11161 Crist Drive, before the subdivsion was incorporated into the town from the county. Some 
sources mention that Jobs worked at both Haltek and another store with a similar name, Halted. 
When asked, Jobs says he can remember working only at Haltek.
CHAPTER 2: ODD COUPLE
Woz:
Interviews with Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs. Wozniak, 12–16, 22, 50–61, 86–91; Levy, 
Hackers
, 245; Moritz, 62–64; Young, 28; Jobs, Macworld address, Jan. 17, 2007.
The Blue Box:
Interviews with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak. Ron Rosenbaum, “Secrets of the 
Little Blue Box,” 
Esquire
, Oct. 1971. Wozniak answer, woz.org/letters/general/03.html; Wozniak, 
98–115. For slightly varying accounts, see Markoff, 272; Moritz, 78–86; Young, 42–45; Malone, 
30–35.
CHAPTER 3: THE DROPOUT