"The basis for 'Genius', a ten-part global event series" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note:
ch. One The Light-Beam Rider
ch. Two Childhood, 1879 1896
ch. Three The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896 1900
ch. Four The Lovers, 1900 1904
ch. Five The Miracle Year: Quanta and Molecules, 1905
ch. Six Special Relativity, 1905
ch. Seven The Happiest Thought, 1906 1909
ch. Eight The Wandering Professor, 1909 1914
ch. Nine General Relativity, 1911 1915
ch. Ten Divorce, 1916 1919
ch. Eleven Einstein's Universe, 1916
ch. Twelve Fame, 1919
ch. Thirteen The Wandering Zionist, 1920 1921
ch. Fourteen Nobel Laureate, 1921 1927
ch. Fifteen Unified Field Theories, 1923 1931
ch. Sixteen Turning Fifty, 1929
ch. Seventeen Einstein's God
ch. Eighteen The Refugee, 1932 1933
ch. Nineteen America, 1933 1939
ch. Twenty Quantum Entanglement, 1935
ch. Twenty-One The Bomb, 1939 1945
ch. Twenty-Two One- Worlder, 1945 1948
ch. Twenty-Three Landmark, 1948 1953
Contents note continued: ch. Twenty-Four Red Scare, 1951 1954
ch. Twenty-Five The End, 1955.

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.--From publisher description.