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Pulitzer: A Life Hardcover - 2001
by Denis Brian
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- Title Pulitzer: A Life
- Author Denis Brian
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons, New York
- Date September 14, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 11111121627
- ISBN 9780471332008 / 0471332003
- Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
- Dimensions 9.72 x 6.56 x 1.4 in (24.69 x 16.66 x 3.56 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Journalists - United States, Pulitzer, Joseph
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001026916
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Acclaim for Denis Brian's Einstein: A Life "The best account.... Superb insight." --The Times (London) "Denis Brian's convincing picture...only makes our wonder grow at Einstein's sublime achievements." --The Washington Post "Does much to reveal the man behind the image.... Brian's intimate work proves that in literature, as in science, taking a careful look can be a rewarding endeavor." --Detroit Free Press "A fascinating, vastly enjoyable, deeply researched and fair account of Einstein the man." --Physics World "Exhaustively researched, almost obsessively detailed, written with unobtrusive informality, the book is exemplary as a record of Einstein's personal and professional life." --The Spectator (u.k.) "An utterly fascinating life of a great scientist, full of new insights and very readable." --Ashley Montagu "A fasci...
First line
At eighteen, Joseph Pulitzer, a penniless, gangling Hungarian emigrant recruited in Europe to fight in the Civil War, threw himself from the ship bringing him to the United States and swam ashore to collect the bounty he thought should come to him and not to his recruiter.