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Our American Stories

[This Week in History: Apple Founded] Steve Jobs: A Man at the Intersection of Art and Science

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, in honor of Apple's founding this week in history in 1976, Walter Isaacson, author of the biography on Steve Jobs, tells the story of the man who created the 21st century and shares how the glass screen on the iPhone (along with other design quirks of his products) showed his intense and unwavering idealism in creating them. We want to thank the Library of Congress for this wonderful audio. 

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0:00.0

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0:09.1

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0:13.7

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0:18.5

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0:21.0

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0:26.6

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0:48.6

This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

0:53.6

Up next, the story of an American innovator and an American artist.

0:56.0

We're talking about Steve Jobs.

0:59.3

Here to tell the story is Walter Isaacson,

1:03.5

the author of the biography of Steve Jobs, among so many others.

1:08.1

We'd like to thank the Library of Congress for allowing us to use this audio.

1:09.9

Let's get into the story. It was about eight years ago that I got a phone call from Steve Jobs.

1:15.6

I had known him for the past 20 years since 1984 when he came to Time Magazine to

1:21.6

show off that wonderful Macintosh computer.

1:25.6

And even back then in 1984, I saw the passion for perfection and also that impatience

1:33.3

that was bred into his personality and how those two things were connected.

1:37.7

He showed off the Macintosh at Time magazine and how beautiful each icon was,

1:43.5

made us use a jeweler's loop to look at the beauty of the pixels,

1:49.1

the design, that little off-kilter disc drive that made it look like a smile. But then he told

1:55.1

us that our magazine stank. Actually, he used a four-letter word, and he said Newsweek was much better, because

2:02.1

we had not made him man of the year. And I realized then that that connection of that passion

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