For the religious artwork, see Icon. For other uses, see Icon (disambiguation).
iCon
Author
Jeffrey S. Young
William L. Simon[1][2]
Country
United States
Publisher
Wiley
Publication date
2005
Pages
368
ISBN
0-471-72083-6 [3][4] 2nd ed. ISBN 0-471-78784-1[1][5]
iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business is an unauthorized biography by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon about the return of Steve Jobs to Apple Inc. in 1997. It was published in 2005.[6]
The book's title is a pun with one connotation that of Jobs as an icon with attributes to be admired, while carrying the negative interpretation as I-(am a)-Con, as in a con man, criticized for charisma used in harmful ways such as the "reality distortion field". The non-capitalized "i" at the beginning is also in reference to many of Apple's products, such as the iPhone, iMac, iPod, and iTunes.
It is the followup to Young's 1988 biography, Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward.[7]
^ abYoung, Jeffrey S.; Simon, William L. (April 14, 2006). iCon: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business rk. Wiley. ISBN 9780471787846. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
^"iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second ACT in the History of Business (Updated) - Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon. 0471787841". Boone Bridge Books. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
^"iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second ACT in the History of Business - Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon. 0471720836". Boone Bridge Books. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved May 21, 2008.
^Arone, Todd (August 25, 2008). "Book Review: "iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business"". Mac History. Christoph Dernbach. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
^"iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second ACT in the History of Business (Updated) - Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon. 0471787841". Boone Bridge Books. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
^"Wiley: ICon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business". Archived from the original on November 5, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
^Young, Jeffrey S. (1987). Steve Jobs: the Journey Is the Reward. Scott Foresman. p. 440. ISBN 0-6731-8864-7.
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