Gates (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1955-1992
- Setting: Seattle and Redmond, Washington, and Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Principal Characters: William Gates, Paul Allen, John Shirley, Michael Hallman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: American Dream, Popular culture, Entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs, Technology, Computers, Corporations, Artificial intelligence
- Locales: Seattle, WA, Albuquerque, NM
The subtitle of this new biography of William H. Gates, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, may be long and cumbersome, but it accurately describes the book’s dual direction. Although in biographies of most famous people-and Bill Gates has indeed become famous-readers may be interested in the personal life behind the public persona, what inquiring readers really want to know about Gates is how he became a billionaire while still in his thirties. The answer lies in the other half of the subtitle: Gates has become so identified with the meteoric rise of the personal...
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