Book excerpt: "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson

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Bestselling author Walter Isaacson has previously written biographies of inventive and dynamic personalities, from Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs. For his latest, "Elon Musk" (published September 12 by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS' parent company, Paramount Global), Isaacson received unparalleled access with the billionaire entrepreneur.

The result is a psychological portrait of a visionary whose projects speak to a traumatic and violent childhood and the abusive father that shaped his psyche.