Albert Einstein: Out of My Later
Years Through His Own Words by
Albert Einstein
Essays Of The Last Fifteen Years
Albert Einstein, among the greatest scientists of all time, was also a man of
profound thought and deeply humane feelings. His collected essays offer a
fascinating and moving look at one of the twentieth centurys leading
minds.
Covering a fifteen year period from 1934 to 1950, the contents of this book
have been drawn from Einsteins articles, addresses, letters and assorted
papers. Through his words, you can understand the man and gain his
insight on social, religious, and educational issues.

Personal Review: Albert Einstein: Out of My Later Years
Through His Own Words by Albert Einstein
This volume collects essays of the last fifteen years of his life. The work
has sections on 'Convictions and Beliefs' 'Science and Life' ' Public Affairs'
' Personalities' and 'His own people: The Jews"
The work features expositions of some of Einstein's major scientific work.
Among the personalities written about are Gandhi who Einstein greatly
admires, Newton, Kepler, Planck, Madame Curie, Langevin, and lesser
known figures Paul Ehrenfest,Carl von Ossietsky.
Einstein writes much about the terrible changes in Germany he saw in his
own lifetime, the rise of Nazism and Anti- Semitism.
He writes about the creation of a national homeland for the Jews, his own
Zionism, and his own connection with the Jewish people.
He writes too about his conception of world- peace, about the threat to the
world brought about something he is no small part a contributor to, the
harnessing of the atom.
In writing about himself in the opening section of the work he says, "I do
the thing which my own nature drives me to do. It is embarassing to earn
so much love and respect for it."
He celebrates the life of thought , of the solitary individual .
Einstein is the greatest modern example of Keynes dictum of how it is
'ideas' that change the world. He is the example of how one man alone ,
thinking, transformed our understanding of nature, and our power to
change it.
In these essays the main interests of Einstein's life are touched upon. He
writes with clarity and modesty.
An invaluable opportunity to be in touch with ' the Mind that defined an
Age'.
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