Einstein

His Life and Universe

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Einstein

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

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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.

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"Isaacson has managed the extraordinary feat of preserving Einstein's monumental stature while at the same time bringing him to such vivid life that we come to feel as if he could be walking in our midst."
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals

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Das Hörbuch hat mir alles in allem gefallen- dennoch musste ich stellenweise „durchhalten“ und habe zwischenzeitlich zur Abwechslung immer mal wieder andere Hörbücher gehört. Das Leben von Albert Einstein wird sehr genau wiedergegeben und sein Charakter detailgetreu skizziert. Die wiederholten physikalischen Abhandlungen waren für meinen Geschmack etwas zu langatmig, denn ich konnte ihnen nicht besonders gut folgen. Jemand, der sich mit der Materie auskennt, wird daran aber wohl seine Freude haben.
Der Sprecher war sehr gut und er hat den stellenweise schon sehr spröden Text trotzdem gut rüber gebracht.
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