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
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?"
爱因斯坦说话较晚,两岁多才会说话。 从小质疑权威,被老师勒令退学。聪明,成绩很好,老师无法授课。 从小学习小提琴,欣赏莫扎特,不喜欢贝多芬。 青少年时有宗教信仰。 大学毕业后找工作处处碰壁,无处接纳。做家教维持开支。 托朋友关系找到专利局的工作,在非学术研究工作...
评分这两天在看《奇葩说》,辩题是感兴趣的工作都是996,我该不该886?关于工作多少人真的喜欢996呢?而那些觉得996不对的人又有多少有勇气向公司抗议呢?大多数人选择忍受,或者任凭低效的工作占满自己的个人生活。最大的抗议也就是辞职或者在网络上匿名骂骂发泄了吧。而同样的问...
评分 评分听书听完的,摘抄解读词如下:“爱因斯坦之所以能一次次发现颠覆性的理论,有两个至关重要的原因:一个是他独立思考、不迷信权威的性格特点,这个特点赋予爱因斯坦颠覆常识的勇气;另一个原因,是他相信宇宙中存在一套简洁、理性、统一的自然规律,这个信念促使他为了探索科学...
He's like Sheldon... or, Sheldon mostly comes from him
评分Walter竟然写得比steve Jobs还厚,写得过于详细了,看了20-30%
评分Brain experiment
评分An independant thinker, pacifist, nonconformist and his legendary life. p.s. Walter Isaacson is now on my list of personal heros!
评分牛逼了一辈子的人
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