Well, as some old general once said, war is hell, but in this case, it may be more like purgatory.

A 22-year-old Japanese soldier was left to defend a South Pacific island during World War II.

But he never knew the war ended,

and he stayed on the job until the 1970s.

I'm Patty Steele.

He's next on the backstory.

When Walter Isacinth set out to write his biography of Elon Musk,

he believed he was taking on a world-changing figure.

That night he was deciding whether or not to allow Starlink to be enabled to allow a sneak attack on Crimea.

What he got was a subject who also sewed chaos in conspiracy.

I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks.

And when I sat down with Isakson five weeks ago, he told me how he captured it all.

They had Kansas spray paint and they're just putting big axes on machines and it's almost like kids playing on the playground

Just choose them up left right and center and then like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he doesn't even remember it, getting to Mars,

doesn't excuse being a total ass.

But I want the reader to see it in action.

My name is Evan Ratliff, and this is On Musk with Walter Isakson.

Join us in this four-part series as Isakson breaks down how he captured a vivid portrait

of a polarizing genius.

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