In more than 40 years of interactions with Gates , I have found him resistant to self reflection. Hed often mock my attempts to engage him in a deep biographical mode by making flip comments or dodging the question. But in this book—his fifth—released this February, there are about 300 pages of Bill Gates personal journey, told in a somewhat unsparing first person. As he paints it, Gates Seattle childhood hit all the notes of a 50s sitcom, with loving, devoted parents and the trappings of the...
