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Walter Isaacson
History & Biography Pavilion
2:05-2:35 pm
Book Signing
3:30-4:30 pm
Veteran journalist Walter Isaacson's career has taken him from a newspaper reporter and city hall columnist in New Orleans to managing editor of Time magazine. He has been chairman of CNN and currently is president of the Aspen Institute. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Kissinger: A Biography, and coauthor of Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. His latest book is Einstein: His Life and Universe (Simon & Schuster, 2008). He lives in the District of Columbia.