Included in the reams of documentation for this book are personal papers that have only recently been released and which inform Einstein’s early years.Įven for its completeness, the biography is not heavy-handed. An astounding number of paragraphs in the text contain first-person quotes or references to personal correspondence. Relying scrupulously on primary sources, Isaacson details the ideas, pressures, relationships, and political context that surrounded Einstein. Similarly, Einstein’s politics were based on the idea of creating and empowering a one-world government.įollowing this overarching theme of Einstein’s life, Isaacson’s book is a unifying force in our understanding of Einstein. His theory of the photovoltaic effect, for which he won the Nobel Prize, brought together ideas of quanta and the nature of light. His theory of general relativity connected the dissimilar ideas of gravity and electromagnetism. Einstein was compelled to explore ways to bring together disparate parts of science. Throughout this most-encompassing biography of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson continually returns to a theme that pervaded Einstein’s life: that of unification.
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