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The faults in Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography keep piling up

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James Robins
Sep 27, 2023
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FOR DEFECTOR, I REVIEWED Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk: a very bad and baffling book, a 600-page blue streak of grovelling and excuse-making:

There is evidence that when Musk wants something badly enough—a new business opportunity, say, or a new wife—he is capable of being sweet, charming, enthusiastic, and smart. “He could flip a switch,”…

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