Elon Musk (anglicky) – Isaacson Walter (2023)

This biography by Walter Isaacson is an intimate account of Elon Musk, the fascinating and controversial innovator who helped lead the world into the age of electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence, and took over Twitter. As a child in South Africa, Musk was bullied and abused by his father, an engineer, rogue and charismatic fantasist, experiences that left lasting emotional scars. He grew into a tough yet vulnerable man prone to abrupt mood swings, with a high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission and a maniacal intensity that could be callous and destructive. In early 2022, after SpaceX had launched thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla had sold a million cars and Musk had become the richest man in the world, he spoke about his compulsion to create drama. Even then, he was secretly buying shares in Twitter. For two years, Isaacson followed Musk, attended his meetings, visited his factories and interviewed his family, friends, colleagues and adversaries. The result is a revealing inside story of triumph and turmoil that asks whether the demons driving Musk are also what drives innovation and progress.