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Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future
- Title
- Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future / Ashlee Vance.
- Author
- Vance, Ashlee
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- 280 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- This book spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk's story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk is a contemporary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs.
- Subjects
- Businesspeople
- Musk, Elon
- United States
- Musk, Elon > Juvenile literature
- Tesla Motors Juvenile literature
- Juvenile works
- PayPal (Firm)
- Biographies
- Businesspeople > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
- PayPal (Firm) Juvenile literature
- Businesspeople > South Africa > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Biography
- SpaceX (Firm)
- Tesla Motors
- South Africa
- SpaceX (Firm) Juvenile literature
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Juvenile works.
- Audience (note)
- Ages 10-13.
- Study Program (note)
- Accelerated Reader AR
- Call Number
- JFD 18-1318
- ISBN
- 9780062463289
- 0062463284
- 9780062463272
- 0062463276
- 1536402125
- 9781536402124
- LCCN
- 2016949898
- OCLC
- 967536322
- Author
- Vance, Ashlee, author.
- Title
- Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future / Ashlee Vance.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- Young readers' edition.First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- Ages 10-13.
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader AR 8.3 11.0 187591.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-1318