A review by leilatre
Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson
4.0
Another audiobook of a long, well-written biography. These are my favorite sorts of audiobooks. This one was narrated by Edward Hermann and he was a joy to listen to (RIP). There were parts of this book that were too technical for this non-physicist, but the payoff of learning about his philosophy in his later life were worth the slog through the middle of the book (I might not have felt this way if I'd tried to read the physics stuff instead of listening to it).
Maybe it's related to the recent passing of Elie Wiesel, but the moral courage of Einstein in his later life had me near tears a number of times today. And that pushed the book from 3.5 stars (a bit overly thorough in parts and repetitive) to a solid 4 stars.
Maybe it's related to the recent passing of Elie Wiesel, but the moral courage of Einstein in his later life had me near tears a number of times today. And that pushed the book from 3.5 stars (a bit overly thorough in parts and repetitive) to a solid 4 stars.