Our colleague Tim Higgins sat down with a renowned biographer yesterday.

Walter Isaacson, thank you for joining us.

We're here to talk about your new book, Elon Musk, congratulations and thanks for making

some time.

And thank you, Tim.

And thanks for being the pioneer on this subject.

Walter Isaacson has written books about a lot of powerful men.

Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin.

And for two years, Isaacson shadowed Elon Musk everywhere he went.

You know, I slept in air stream trailers in the South tip of Texas where SpaceX has his

launch pad.

I spent a lot of late nights and factories.

He put nothing off limits, which surprised the heck out of me.

He said, I just want to surprise you about the transparency.

In my side of the deal was fine, I want to be everywhere, but you get no control over

the book.

You don't even get to read it before it comes out.

Has he read it now?

I don't know.

He says on Twitter, I don't know.

He says he hasn't, so we'll see.

On Sunday, Musk tweeted on the platform, now called X, that he has a copy of the book,

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