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In the book, Isaacson dispels many common misconceptions about Einstein (for example, if in school, Albert had problems with math), and recounts how too much freedom-loving clerk of a  Patent Office, which hasn’t been able to get even the position of a school teacher, made a scientific revolution, and penetrated into the mysteries of the atom and the universe. The book gives a lot of documental materials: letters, memories, and diaries. We are shown an image of a person who was extremely talented, who was a dreamer and a rebel, a humanist, and a thinker.  

Walter Isaacson is an American journalist, a writer and a biographer; he is the author of the popular biographies of Steve Jobs, Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. Walter Isaacson is the president of the Aspen Institute, the former director of CNN and editor in chief of Time.

Summary language: English