"As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger) brings Einstein`s experience of life, love, and intellectual discovery into brilliant focus. The book is the first biography to tackle Einstein`s enormous volume of personal correspondence that heretofore had been sealed from the public, and it`s hard to imagine another book that could do such a richly textured and complicated life as Einstein`s the same thoughtful justice. Isaacson is a master of the form and this latest opus is at once arresting and wonderfully revelatory." (Anne Bartholomew)