Einstein: His Life and Universe
How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.
Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk -- a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate -- became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.
These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.
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197 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great subject. Dumb author.
This biography's attempt to turn the theories of the greatest mind of the twentieth century into a function of personality is pathetically pedestrian and inane. A pity.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 27, 2008 Type: User Review |
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Informative book on the life and mind of Einstein. A bit over my head at times but still loved it.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 21, 2008 Type: User Review |
A joy even for the scientifically illiterate
As the title of this review indicates I am ashamed to admit I am a scientific illiterate. I barely got through high school Chemistry and Trigonometry. As such I was reluctant to try this book. But I loved Isaacson's work on Franklin, and as...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 20, 2008 Type: User Review |
Did he or didn't he????
The book is absolutely magnificent. For those of us who have read Dawkin's account of Einstein's beliefs (in the God Delusion), which contradicts the account of this book as far as what, if any, kind of deity Einstein believed in, it would be nice...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 17, 2008 Type: User Review |
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Previous reviews have called this book a real page turner. That is very true... and you will have to turn a lot of pages to get to the end. I found myself looking forward to the end. I was exhausted. However, the portrait is well drawn and with a...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
Insightful and wonderfully written: a page-turner
Walter Isaacson writes history so that it reads like an excellent, exciting novel. This biography is a page-turner.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 27, 2008 Type: User Review |
Forever a rebel
The virtue of Walter Isaacson's _Einstein_ is that Isaacson had access to all of Einstein's surviving correspondence, much of which has only become available recently.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
layers of knowledge about a interesting man
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
a terrific read
This is the only biography of Einstein I have ever read. However, I have also read a number of non-biographical works including one written by Einstein himself. This book was by far, the best I've read on the present subject. Whatever its flaws,...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 20, 2008 Type: User Review |
Commute Time
This is a very interesting read / listen. It is well worth the money and takes you all around the world while you are sitting in traffic.
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