![]() ![]() What's most impressive, though, is his ability to make sense of Einstein's major theoretical achievements, explain them as concisely and intelligibly as possible and weave them into the story as a whole. ![]() Given this background, it's not surprising that Isaacson proves to have the necessary research skills, the storytelling ability and the awareness of a lay readership for this kind of endeavour. In addition, he has had an impressive journalistic career that has included editing Time magazine and heading the CNN television network. He has written two heavyweight biographies, about Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger. ![]() Isaacson is eminently qualified to be the creator of such a work. There has been no shortage of books about Einstein, and many good ones, but this latest, in its sheer scope and size, will be hard to surpass as the definitive layperson-intelligible work on the subject. With this, his latest biographical work, American Walter Isaacson has achieved the unthinkable, producing 675 pages about a theoretical physicist that are not only readable but, more often than not, gripping. ![]()
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