Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, D.C., and was previously chairman and CEO of CNN and editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe (April 2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).

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You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story

<p>In an excerpt from his new book, <i>The Innovators</i>, Walter Isaacson recounts the improbable story of the online encyclopedia that has proven its detractors wrong time and again.</p>

Walter Isaacson

More Credit Deserved

Obama hasn’t put an end to the partisan vitriol, but he should get more recognition for preventing our financial system from going off a cliff.

Walter Isaacson

A Justice Reflects

With Sotomayor's hearings two weeks away, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor tells Walter Isaacson she regrets she wasn't replaced by a woman and says real-life experiences matter.

Walter Isaacson