Clark, Ronald – EINSTEIN The Life And Times – 1971

cm. 23 x 16, pp. 718, copertina rigida con sovraccoperta, in buone condizioni.

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 pac ifism, 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 business man intent on turning millions into billions.

Clark has drawn an extraor dinarily 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 compas sionate biography. Mr. Clark has drawn on an immense amount of new material. But he has never lost sight of the man who was one of the greatest contradictions of our times: the German who hated the Ger mans; the pacifist who changed his mind; the ambivalent Zionist who was asked to head the Israeli state; the physicist who believed in a God.