The never-before-told story of the FBI's Cold War campaign against the world's most famous scientist, Albert Einstein, "The Einstein File" opens with a request from the INS to J. Edgar Hoover in 1950: "Please furnish a report as to the nature of any derogatory information contained in any file your Bureau may have on the following person." The person in question was Albert Einstein, and the request intensified a vigorous top-secret campaign to discredit the famous scientist, a campaign that would continue unabated until his death in 1955. This text is both a gripping tale of espionage and a significant addition to our portrait of the 20th century's greatest thinker. Science journalist Fred Jerome weaves information from Einstein's 1500-plus-page FBI file with historical details of the period, creating a spy-story-like narrative that provides the first detailed portrait of Einstein's political beliefs. A pacifist, Zionist, socialist, and outspoken critic of racism, Einstein used his considerable public renown to ridicule the McCarthy hearings publicly and discourage witnesses from testifying at them.
- ISBN10 1771861304
- ISBN13 9781771861304
- Publish Date 1 May 2018 (first published May 2001)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Baraka Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 380
- Language English