AJM book talk: Isaacson’s “Leonardo da Vinci”

Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesEarlier this year, I read Walter Isaacson’s “Leonardo da Vinci,” which is a biography of — you guessed it — Leonardo da Vinci. It was a really fascinating read for me, and thus, since this is my blog and I can post more or less what I want, I am going to share some thoughts about it with you folks.

Isaacson is a long-time journalist who is the former editor of Time Magazine, former president and CEO of CNN, and former president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He’s also written a number of books, including biographies of Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs, which I have read previously. When his biography of Leonardo came out, I grabbed it,…