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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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