The most famous scientist of the twentieth century, Albert
Einstein was also one of the century's most outspoken political
activists. Deeply engaged with the events of his tumultuous times,
from the two world wars and the Holocaust, to the atomic bomb and
the Cold War, to the effort to establish a Jewish homeland,
Einstein was a remarkably prolific political writer, someone who
took courageous and often unpopular stands against nationalism,
militarism, anti-Semitism, racism, and McCarthyism. In "Einstein on
Politics," leading Einstein scholars David Rowe and Robert
Schulmann gather Einstein's most important public and private
political writings and put them into historical context. The book
reveals a little-known Einstein--not the ineffectual and naive
idealist of popular imagination, but a principled, shrewd
pragmatist whose stands on political issues reflected the depth of
his humanity.
Nothing encapsulates Einstein's profound involvement in
twentieth-century politics like the atomic bomb. Here we read the
former militant pacifist's 1939 letter to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt warning that Germany might try to develop an atomic bomb.
But the book also documents how Einstein tried to explain this
action to Japanese pacifists after the United States used atomic
weapons to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki, events that spurred
Einstein to call for international control of nuclear
technology.
A vivid firsthand view of how one of the twentieth century's
greatest minds responded to the greatest political challenges of
his day, "Einstein on Politics" will forever change our picture of
Einstein's public activism and private motivations."
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