这本乔布斯唯一授权的官方传记，在2011年上半年由美国出版商西蒙舒斯特对外发布出版消息以来，备受全球媒体和业界瞩目，这本书的全球出版日期最终确定为2011年11月21日，简体中文版也将同步上市。
两年多的时间，与乔布斯40多次的面对面倾谈，以及与乔布斯一百多个家庭成员、 朋友、竞争对手、同事的不受限的采访，造就了这本独家传记。
尽管乔布斯给予本书的采访和创作全面的配合，但他对内容从不干涉，也不要求出版前阅读全文的权利。对于任何资源和关联的人，他都不设限，甚至鼓励他所熟知的人袒露出自己的心声。
“我已经做了很多并不值得自豪的事情，比如23岁时就让我的女友怀了孕，以及我对这件事的处理方式”，他说， “对我而言，没有什么不可以对外袒露的。”
谈及和他共过事的人以及竞争对手，他直言不讳，甚至尖酸刻薄。他的激情、精力、欲望、完美主义、艺术修养、残暴还有对掌控权的迷恋塑造出的商业哲学一览无余。
同样，他的朋友、敌人，还有同事得以为我们提供了一个前所未有的毫无掩饰的视角。
他是一位极具创造力的企业家，他有如过山车般精彩的人生和犀利激越的性格，充满追求完美和誓不罢休的激情，他创造出个人电脑、动画电影、音乐、手机、平板电脑以及数字出版等6大产业的颠覆性变革。
乔布斯的个性经常让周围的人愤怒和绝望，但其所创造出的产品也与这种个性息息相关，全然不可分割的，正如苹果的硬件和软件一样。
他的故事既具有启发意义，又有警示意义，充满了关于创新、个性、领导力以及价值观的教益。

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.