He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci Steve Jobs Einstein: His Life and Universe Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Kissinger: A Biography. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Walter Isaacson, University Professor of History at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman of CNN, and editor of Time magazine.This book is popular science, biography, history and dramatic writing at its very best.

Thorough, comprehensive, affectionate.

Brilliantly readable and compellingly accessible, Einstein: His Life and Universe is a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being, and great genius.

Drawing on new research and personal documents belonging to Einstein only recently made available, this book also includes items of rare facsimile memorabilia, to show you more than this scientist's groundbreaking theories.

As well as showing how Einstein developed his theories, 'Einstein' reveals the man behind the science, from his early years and experiments in Germany and his struggle to find work at the Swiss patent office to his marriages and children, his role in the development of the atomic bomb, and his work for civil rights groups in the United States.From his remarkable theory of relativity and the famous equation E=mc2 to his concept of a unified field theory, no one has contributed as much to science in the last century.This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for freedom of spirit and individuality - all of which helped make Einstein into a rebel, but with a reverence for the harmony of nature, one with just the right blend of imagination and wisdom to transform our understanding of the universe.

His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane.

Working as a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office in 1905, Einstein produced four papers that redefined Physics.

In this first full biography since all Einstein's papers have become available, bestselling author Walter Isaacson explains not just how his mind worked out but also presents a marvelously clear picture of the mysteries of the universe he discovered - and of the the very human man who discovered them.

Albert Einstein is one of the greatest icons of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius.

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