Albert Einstein: A Biography

By Folsing, Albrecht
Penguin, 1998, Paperback, 928 pp., ISBN: 0140237194, $25.00

The name of Albert Einstein has become synonymous with supreme wisdom and benignity.

Not only was he responsible for the fundamental remapping of our understanding of the physical cosmos, he also left a legacy of outspokenness on the crucial, moral, political, and religious issues of the twentieth century. Drawing on an unprecedented amount of sources, Albrecht Folsing throws into fresh relief the remarkable life of Einstein, approaching the man through the science, and situating him in the creativity charged times in which he thrived.

In Folsing's superb book, Einstein's discoveries are articulated clearly and effectively, without technical overkill and without simplifying the historical scientific context. From the publisher