Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, DC.
Biography
Rhodes Scholar, historian, and bestselling author Walter Isaacson began his distinguished career as a journalist -- first for London's Sunday Times, then for The Times-Picayune/States-Item, published in his hometown of New Orleans. He joined Time magazine in 1978, working his way up from political correspondent to managing editor in a little less than two decades. He served for two years as chairman and CEO of the cable TV news network CNN; then, in 2003, he became president of the Aspen Institute, an international nonprofit organization "dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue." In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was appointed vice-chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, and he serves on a number of policy-making boards and councils.
In literary circles, Isaacson is best known as the writer of magisterial biographies, scholarly and meticulously researched, yet immensely entertaining. His first book, however, was a collaborative effort. Co-written with award-winning journalist Evan Thomas, and published in 1986, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made explores the lives of six men who shaped government and public policy in the years following WWII. Examining an era too recent to be called history and too distant to qualify as current affairs, the book received mixed reviews but was universally praised for its ambitious scope and elegant style.
Isaacson's subsequent biographies, all solo efforts (and all critically acclaimed), have chronicled the lives of such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He explains what has drawn him to such widely divergent subjects -- men, who on the surface would appear to have very little in common: "I like writing about people with interesting minds. I try to explore the various aspects of intelligence: common sense, wisdom, creativity, imagination, mental processing power, emotional understanding, and moral values. Which of these traits are the most important? How do they make someone an influential or significant or good person?"
As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger) brings Einstein's experience of life, love, and intellectual discovery into brilliant focus. The book is the first biography to tackle Einstein's enormous volume of personal correspondence that heretofore had been sealed from the public, and it's hard to imagine another book that could do such a richly textured and complicated life as Einstein's the same thoughtful justice. Isaacson is a master of the form and this latest opus is at once arresting and wonderfully revelatory. --Anne Bartholomew
作为一个物理学渣,真的是搞不懂以太 相对论 量子 场论 各种子什么的。 但本书的作者,让我能够理解为什么会有这样的发现 他们在研究什么 对未来有什么影响。 爱因斯坦确实是一个伟大的人。 他的好奇心 怀疑论 思考性 执行力 专注 想象力,让他跳出了原有的框架,构建了更为广...
评分从一个无畏无知的孩童起,把他的好奇心和求知欲一直保持下去,这是我们每个人都特别需要的?对大自然的终极敬畏,对自由的热爱,对传统的叛逆,摒弃了主宰科学数百年的传统思想成就了爱因斯坦的伟大。爱因斯坦对人类未来,对宇宙的思考,对于世界未来的看法,在政治家看来是荒...
评分 评分This book was quite similar to Steve Jobs. Probably, the author Walter has re-used a lot of words when writing Steve Jobs's biography. But, Einstein did have a lot in common with Jobs as both of them were typical non-conformists. The structure of the book...
评分这本书把爱因斯坦写成了一个活生生的人,一个充满各种欲望和永不妥协的自由主义者。 观其一生,强烈的个人主义和自由主义,绝对的藐视权威和不妥协、不墨守成规,是其人格上的根本特点。他的所有成就都是建立在这些品性的基础上。 他的童年就体现出...
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评分反叛的力量,太可怕,即使是爱因斯坦也无法驾驭
评分牛逼了一辈子的人
评分读了其中感兴趣的三章。特别是【einstein's God】。
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