{"product_id":"einstein-on-politics-his-private-thoughts-and-public-stands-on-nationalism-zionism-war-peace-and-the-bomb-9780691120942","title":"Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism  Zionism  War  Peace  and the Bomb","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most famous scientist of the twentieth century  Albert Einstein was also one of the centurys 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 Einsteins most important public and private political writings and put them into historical context. The book reveals a little-known Einstein--not the ineffectual and nave idealist of popular imagination  but a principled  shrewd pragmatist whose stands on political issues reflected the depth of his humanity.  Nothing encapsulates Einsteins profound involvement in twentieth-century politics like the atomic bomb. Here we read the former militant pacifists 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 centurys greatest minds responded to the greatest political challenges of his day  Einstein on Politics will forever change our picture of Einsteins public activism and private motivations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647082684469,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691120943","price":34.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691120942.jpg?v=1781688222","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/einstein-on-politics-his-private-thoughts-and-public-stands-on-nationalism-zionism-war-peace-and-the-bomb-9780691120942","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}