Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir
The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert
Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic
series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and
Tony Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.
How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography
shows how Einstein's scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious
nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the
connection between creativity and freedom. Einstein explores how an
imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a
difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a
doctorate--became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the
locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success
came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries
that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and
politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free
individuals.
Einstein, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly
acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth
century, "an illuminating delight" (The New York Times). The basis for
the National Geographic series Genius, by the author of The
Innovators, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin, this is the
definitive biography of Albert Einstein.
