The Private Lives of Albert Einstein
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (753 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312302274 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Christina M. Cianci said Four Stars. Surprising. A Customer said The myth of Albert Einstein. This a very good book. Two able researchers put their heads together and did all the research. The result is a fascinating picture of a rather unhappy man who had his moment of glory and spent the rest of his life chasing a wild goose--a unified theory. I wouldn't say they shattered the myth of Einstein, but they do point out that he might have had some help with relativity and did very little in physics in the last The myth of Albert Einstein This a very good book. Two able researchers put their heads together and did all the research. The result is a fascinating picture of a rather unhappy man who had his moment of glory and spent the rest of his life chasing a wild goose--a unified theory. I wouldn't say they shattered the myth of Einstein, but they do point out that he might have had some help with relativity and did very little in physics in the last 30 years of his life--al. 0 years of his life--al. John Rummel said Essential Einstein reading.. It is inevitable that Albert Einstein's "private lives" will fall under the dissection knives of historians and biographers. There are already dozens of excellent biographies of Einstein on the market, ranging from the extremely scientific to the extremely personal. As the Einstein Papers Project continues to explore the personal correspondence of this remarkable scientist, we can expect the personal revelations to continue. Einstein, as we
Photos.. This controversial account of Albert Einstein's scandalous personal life challenges the image of this genius, painting a shocking portrait that exposes him as "an adulterous, egomaniacal misogynist who may have even beaten his first wife"(The New York Times Sunday Magazine)
"A deeply melancholic and moving tale that forces its readers to grapple with the enigma of the Einstein myth."--The Economist. A shocking portrait of the greatest genius of this century. The book reveals that the Nobel Prize-winner whose genius and work for peace have long been associated with a kind of personal nobility had an adulterous, egomaniacal, and misogynist side with which very few people are familiar. So intensely guarded and obscured were the details of Einstein's personal life that it took the authors six months to gain permission to quote from Einstein's correspondence, and even then many letters could only be paraph