In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized go through the extraordinary life of 1 of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs-a real-life Tony Stark-and a remarkable exploration of the renewal of American invention and its fresh “makers.”

Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned business owner and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, about Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Upcoming PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc from the genius’s existence and function, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic specialized innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits.

Vance uses Musk’s tale to explore among the pressing queries of our age group: can the nation of inventors and designers who led today’s world for a hundred years still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk-one of the very most unusual and stunning figures in American business history-is a modern, visionary amalgam of renowned inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Careers. More than some other entrepreneur today, Musk offers dedicated his energies and his personal vast fortune to inventing a future that’s as wealthy and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy.

Thorough and insightful, Elon Musk brings to life a technology industry that’s rapidly and dramatically changing by examining the life of 1 of its most effective and important titans.