Einstein: The Life and Times
Einstein: The Life and Times
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Publisher: Avon
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 880
ISBN: 9780380011599
Related Categories: All Books Biographies, Diaries & True Accounts English Books Non-Fiction Books Sciences, Technology & Medicine
Albert Einstein was far more than the physicist who confidently claimed that space and time were not what they seemed to be. Middle age saw the man who described himself as "pas très Juif" blossoming out as a standard-bearer for Zionism. He passionately indulged in pacifism, and as passionately rejected it when Hitler began to show, unbelievably to most reasonable men, that he really meant what he said about the Jews and the master race. Throughout it all, Einstein stuck to the job at hand, as determined to squeeze the next fact out of Nature as a businessman intent on turning millions into billions.
Ronald W. Clark has drawn an extraordinarily moving portrait of a man who was one of the great tragic figures of our time. It is the picture of a man who while still young abandoned much of life with the passion of the convinced monastic, and who was thrust back into it by the unobliging pressures of history. And in science the greatest physicist of three centuries, or possibly of them all, found himself after middle age pushed by the advance of quantum mechanics into a backwater, "a genuine old museum-piece," as he himself wrote.
The life of Albert Einstein has been brought into brilliant focus by Ronald W. Clark's deeply significant and compassionate biography. Mr. Clark has drawn on a immense amount of new material. But he has never lost sight of the man who was one of the greatest contradictions of out times: the German who hated the Germans; the pacifist who changed his mind; the ambivalent Zionist who was asked to head the Israeli state; the physicist who believed in God.
"A fascinating description of the career and substance of a genius." -- Christian Science Monitor
"A nonscientific reader will gain a real and imaginative impression of Einsteinian physicsA remarkable feat. Read the book. It is well worth it." -- C.P. Snow, Life
"An adventure of the intellect, challenging and absorbing." -- Vancouver Sun
"Applauded for its precision as well as its perception." -- Chicago Tribune
"Clark not only brings Einstein alive, but also the scientific and intellectual issues." -- Los Angeles Times
"Encyclopedic! Vivid and readable." -- New York Times Book Review
