The political Einstein: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb.

From: Issues in Science and Technology | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

eds. David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007, 523 pp.

If you've thought of Albert Einstein as he's so often pictured by news media--as that famously tousle-haired, remote genius off in his own abstract world--then Einstein on Politics offers some surprises. A 1946 Time cover image set E = m[c.sup.2] in a mushroom cloud behind "Cosmoclast Einstein," who stares blankly at the reader. When Time proclaimed Einstein its "Person of the Century" in 2000, it bolstered his stereotype as "the embodiment of pure intellect, the bumbling ...

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