Jill Lepore's piece in The New Yorker is the best take on Isaacson's Musk book, so of course I somehow hadn't shared it yet. Totally nails Isaacson's enabling, the glossing over of Musk's background, the excusing of cruelty and ruthlessness as somehow necessary to innovation or leadership.
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Actually, it kinda parallels the Doctor Manhattan thing: an awful lot of people seem to have missed Watchmen's satirical elements and (like Time, apparently) think the characters are heroes.
With noting that he also has gravitated towards industries with big juicy government subsidies and contracts more often than not