Walter Isaacson, the author, is talking about his book—this minute—on CSPAN 2’s Book TV 5-6pm today, Saturday. I don’t know how good the book is, but you can check the reviews out online if you’re interested. It’s for the “average person” says the program’s cohost, David Derbes, who himself has a PhD in physics (and works at the University of Chicago Laboratory School.)
And in case you want to see the full program, perhaps you’ll luck out and be able to TiVo the replay tomorrow morning. In this area (Connecticut) it’ll run 5-6am Sunday morning on CSPAN2.