The Private Albert Einstein - Hardcover

Bucky, Peter A.; Weakland, Allen G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0836279972 ISBN 13: 9780836279979

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub, 1993

Synopsis

Written by a personal friend of the great scientist, an intimate biography of the father of modern physics reveals details of Einstein's private life, from his arrival in America in 1933 to his death.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Summer vacations, road trips and picnics with an icon of the century are detailed in this recollection of the Bucky and Einstein families' 30-year friendship. With freelance writer Weakland, Bucky--a businessman and son of Einstein's close friend Gustav Bucky-- organizes his material in such chapters as "Einstein and Religion" and "Einstein and His Family," and includes sections labeled "Einstein's Roving Eye" (which seemed mainly to follow heiresses) and "Einstein the Poet" (which covers charming doggerel). Among revelations about Einstein's office furniture, eating habits, dress and musical tastes, the authors suggest that the physicist's longtime secretary, Helen Dukas, may have been his out-of-wedlock daughter by Mileva Maric, or his lover. The book's angle into Einstein's private life ultimately proves narrow: the subject emerges as a less rounded person than the one found in Abraham Pais's Subtle Is the Lord and other biographies. Photos not seen by PW .
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About this edition

• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0836279972
• ISBN 13: 9780836279979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 171