Einstein on the Road

by Eisinger, Josef

• ISBN13: 9781616144609
• ISBN10: 1616144602
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-20
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

Between 1922-33, Einstein kept travel diaries, in which he recorded his impressions of people and events, and his musings on everything from music and politics to quantum mechanics and psychoanalyst and they are the basis for this personal portrait.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. xxv
Timeline	p. xxix
Setting the Stage	p. 1
Background: Wilhelmine Berlin and the Rush to War	p. 2
Before Berlin (1879-1914)	p. 4
In Berlin: War and Its Aftermath (1914-1922)	p. 12
First Visit to America (1921)	p. 15
A Dinner at the Einsteins'	p. 17
Journey to the Far East (1922)	p. 21
Getting Away	p. 21
Sea Voyage to the East	p. 23
Colombo and Singapore	p. 26
Hong Kong and Shanghai	p. 31
Kobe, Kyoto, and Tokyo	p. 34
Sendai, Nikko, and Nagoya	p. 41
Kyoto and Osaka	p. 43
Farewell to Japan: Miyajima, Fukuoka, and Moji	p. 46
Homeward Bound: Palestine and Spain (1923)	p. 51
Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Colombo, Revisited	p. 51
Palestine	p. 8
On the Road Again	p. 66
Spain	p. 67
South America (1925)	p. 73
Back at Home	p. 73
At Sea Again	p. 74
Argentina	p. 78
Uruguay	p. 84
Brazil	p. 87
Back in Berlin	p. 91
Dinner with Count Kessler	p. 93
New York and Pasadena (1930-1931)	p. 95
Berlin 1925-1930	p. 95
Voyage to America	p. 99
Four Days in New York	p. 102
At Sea Again: Havana and Panama	p. 106
Pasadena	p. 109
Berlin and Oxford (1931)	p. 117
At Home in Berlin	p. 117
Oxford: College Life	p. 123
Musical Oxford	p. 126
Back to Reality	p. 131
Return to Pasadena (1931-1932)	p. 133
Across the Atlantic	p. 133
Panama and Honduras	p. 137
Pasadena Encore	p. 140
Oxford, Pasadena, and Last Days in Europe (1932-1933)	p. 149
Second Sojourn in Oxford	p. 150
At Sea Again	p. 153
Pasadena Once More	p. 156
Back to Europe	p. 160
Last Days in Europe	p. 162
Epilogue (1933-1955)	p. 167
Settled in Princeton	p. 167
Physics, the Bomb, and Politics	p. 169
Endgame	p. 172
Notes	p. 175
Select Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 213
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