I purchased a copy of Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon and Schuster. I am posting a review to Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and my nonfiction book review blog. I also posted it to my Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google Plus pages.
I chose to purchase and read this book as I have always been interested in the many different facets of Leonardo Da Vinci, but have never read a biography on this truly extraordinary man. It is the first book by Walter Isaacson that I have read.
Unlike some other reviewers, I found the author’s writing style and organization of the book to be engaging. It may be due to the fact that I have not read other biographies of Da Vinci or books by Isaacson, but I doubt it. Da Vinci was a genius, but was also very human and this book does a very good job of addressing these subjects. The author does quote quite a few others who have written extensively about Leonardo going all the way back to his time period, but I did not find it distracting as I felt it added perspective to the book.
Based on this book I am planning on reading his biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. I will skip the one on Steve Jobs as he never appealed to me while he was alive.
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