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Einstein on politics: his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism, zionism, war, peace, and the bomb

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 establi...

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Autores principales: Rowe, David E, Einstein, Albert, Schulmann, Robert
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Princeton University Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1633679
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Sumario: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 m