article_snippet: (Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs came out in October 2011 -- less than three weeks after Jobs death -- Jobs crystallized many popularly held perceptions of the Apple co-founder.
article_snippet: Now a new book is presenting a kinder, gentler portrait of the mercurial tech exec.
article_snippet: Becoming Steve Jobs," by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, seeks to humanize Jobs through interviews with those who knew him in the latter, wildly successful phases of him career, when some of him rough edges had softened.
article_snippet: Although Steve Jobs (book) life and career have been well chronicled, "My book contains some fresh tidbits: .
article_snippet: -- And Steve Jobs (book) famous commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005 almost got derailed before it started.
article_snippet: Raves from Apple aside, early reviews of "Becoming Steve Jobs" have been mixed.
article_snippet: 'Becoming Steve Jobs offers a more rounded portrait of the man not only because it doesn't lean as heavily on it interviews or stretch for historical weight like Isaacson's book, but because it brings in Schlender's personal interactions with the Apple co-founder," wrote Mic Wright for The Next Web.
highlights_snippet: New book, "Becoming Steve Jobs," offers a gentler vision of the mercurial CEO .
  