| | Characters | p. xiii |
| | Introduction: How This Book Came to Be | p. xvii |
| | Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen | p. 1 |
| | Odd Couple: The Two Steves | p. 21 |
| | The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In ... | p. 31 |
| | Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game Design | p. 42 |
| | The Apple I: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In ... | p. 56 |
| | The Apple II: Dawn of a New Age | p. 71 |
| | Chrisann and Lisa: He Who Is Abandoned ... | p. 86 |
| | Xerox and Lisa: Graphical User Interfaces | p. 92 |
| | Going Public: A Man of Wealth and Fame | p. 102 |
| | The Mac Is Born: You Say You Want a Revolution | p. 108 |
| | The Reality Distortion Field: Playing by His Own Set of Rules | p. 117 |
| | The Design: Real Artists Simplify | p. 125 |
| | Building the Mac: The Journey Is the Reward | p. 135 |
| | Enter Sculley: The Pepsi Challenge | p. 148 |
| | The Launch: A Dent in the Universe | p. 159 |
| | Gates and Jobs: When Orbits Intersect | p. 171 |
| | Icarus: What Goes Up ... | p. 180 |
| | Next: Prometheus Unbound | p. 211 |
| | Pixar: Technology Meets Art | p. 238 |
| | A Regular Guy: Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word | p. 250 |
| | Family Man: At Home with the Jobs Clan | p. 267 |
| | Toy Story: Buzz and Woody to the Rescue | p. 284 |
| | The Second Coming: What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last ... | p. 293 |
| | The Restoration: The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win | p. 305 |
| | Think Different: Jobs as iCEO | p. 327 |
| | Design Principles: The Studio of Jobs and Ive | p. 340 |
| | The iMac: Hello (Again) | p. 348 |
| | CEO: Still Crazy after All These Years | p. 358 |
| | Apple Stores: Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone | p. 368 |
| | The Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod | p. 378 |
| | The iTunes Store: I'm the Pied Piper | p. 394 |
| | Music Man: The Sound Track of His Life | p. 411 |
| | Pixar's Friends: ... and Foes | p. 426 |
| | Twenty-first-century Macs: Setting Apple Apart | p. 444 |
| | Round One: Memento Mori | p. 452 |
| | The iPhone: Three Revolutionary Products in One | p. 465 |
| | Round Two: The Cancer Recurs | p. 476 |
| | The iPad: Into the Post-PC Era | p. 490 |
| | New Battles: And Echoes of Old Ones | p. 511 |
| | To Infinity: The Cloud, the Spaceship, and Beyond | p. 525 |
| | Round Three: The Twilight Struggle | p. 538 |
| | Legacy: The Brightest Heaven of Invention | p. 560 |
| | Acknowledgments | p. 573 |
| | Sources | p. 575 |
| | Notes | p. 579 |
| | Index | p. 599 |