working on the book-- which is published by simon & schuster, a division of cbs--steve jobs' wife, laurene powell, told him, "be honest with his failings as well as his strengths. there are parts of his life and his personality that are extremely messy; you shouldn't whitewash it. i'd like to see that it's all told truthfully." >> he's not warm and fuzzy, you know? >> and to do it, isaacson interviewed more than 100 people--jobs' friends, family, coworkers, and competitor. i think it's a tough book. >> it's a book that's fair. i mean, this is a real human being. >> he had lots of flaws. >> he was very petulant. he was very brittle. he could be very, very mean to people at times, and whether it was to a waitress in a restaurant or to a guy who had stayed up all night coding, he could just really just go at them and say, "you're doing this all wrong; it's horrible." and you'd say, "why did you do that? why weren't you nicer?" and he'd say, "i really want to be with people who demand perfection, and this is who i am." >> isaacson believes that much of it can be traced to the earliest years of his li