Albert Einstein: The Life and Times

718 pp. Several pages of photographs. Ronald W. Clark's definitive biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor who confidently claimed that space and time were not what they seemed. Here is the classic portrait of the scientist and the man: the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passionate pacifist who agonized over making The Bomb, the indifferent Zionist asked to head the Israeli state, the physicist who believed in God. CONTENTS: Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part One: The Making of a Mission - 1. German Boy; 2. Stateless Person; 3. Swiss Civil Servant; Part Two: The Voyage of Discovery - 4. Einstein's Relativity; 5. Fruits of Success; 6. Moves Up the Ladder; 7. A Jew in Berlin; 8. The Sensorium of God; 9. The Fabric of the Universe; Part Three: The Hinge of Fate - 10. The New Messiah; 11. Ambassador-at-Large; Part Four: The Einstein Age - 12. Unter den Linden; 13. The Call of Peace; 14. The Call of Zion; 15. Preparing for the Storm; 16. Good-bye to Berlin; 17. Shopping for Einstein; 18. Of No Address; Part Five: The Illustrious Immigrant - 19. Living with the Legend; 20. Einstein, the Bomb, and the Board of Ordnance; 21. The Conscience of the World; 22. Two Stars at the End of the Rocket; Sources and Bibliography; Notes; Index; Illustrations.