During the first dance at his wedding with his first wife, Justine, he whispered to her, “I am the alpha in this relationship.” In 2016, he accused journalists of “killing people” (by discrediting self-driving technology) after they asked questions about the first drivers to die in Tesla Autopilot accidents. But elsewhere, Elon’s own frequent lack of empathy is bolstered by ample evidence. Nothing Elon Musk says in the book is as jarring as his own father’s sometimes bizarre and racist comments. His volatile emotional states are the biggest constant in a book that zigzags from cars to rockets, tunneling to AI, solar energy to neural implants. At one point, Musk calls himself bipolar. Musk’s moods are variously described as cycling through “light and dark, intense and goofy, detached and emotional, with occasional plunges into what people around him call ‘demon mode’” he’s “childlike, almost stunted,” “a drama magnet,” “not bred for domestic tranquility” he has “a craving for storm and drama” and “erratic emotional oscillations.” Multiple people describe him as having undiagnosed Asperger’s. Musk is tormented, erratic and rude, over and over again Isaacson’s biography is a Musk agonistes: a portrait of a (largely) self-made, emotionally volatile entrepreneur from South Africa who has a tortured relationship with his father and an addiction to crises of the self-inflicted variety. Musk is already one of the most well-known and extensively covered leaders in American corporate life (and one of its most unavoidable figures on the service he has renamed X). Walter Isaacson’s newest book, “ Elon Musk,” about the temperamental corporate executive who runs Tesla, SpaceX and the company formerly known as Twitter, goes on sale this week. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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