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Title: Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives by Gerald Holton, Helen Dukas, Albert Einstein, Banesh Hoffmann ISBN: 0-691-08231-6 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1982 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00

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Summary: The Poop on Einstein
Comment: This book is an excellent introduction to Einstein - if one happens to be a theoretical physicist with an IQ of 186. In other words, this book is abstruse in the extreme. The essays describing Einstein's theories depend heavily on formulas and equations. This begs the question, "so what is the book for?" Other sections of the book dealing with Einstein and the Bomb draw from Einstein's letters, which is good, but the letters really speak for themselves anyway. The section I thought might interest me, Einstein's perspective on language and thought, turned out to be a bunch of psychobabble that obviously comprises someone's ill-conceived thesis. The tone of the book, furthermore, is sickeningly sycophantic. We all recognize Einstein as a great man. What a pity that this book doesn't bring us any closer to knowing why. The picture on the cover, however, is precious. It looks like Inspector Clouseau on the trail of the dreaded Library Fine Evader. I do not recommend this book to any but scholars who've already read everything else on the subject.