Gimbel, Steven:Einstein; His Space and Times
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1962. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good in fair dust jacket. Ink numbers stamped on DJ front flap. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chip… Plus…
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1962. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good in fair dust jacket. Ink numbers stamped on DJ front flap. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips.. 256 p. Bibliography. Index. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert William St. John (March 9, 1902-February 6, 2003) was an American author (23 books), broadcaster (NBC Radio) and journalist (AP, etc.). St. John was born in March 9, 1902, in Chicago. St. John attended Oak Park River Forest High School, where he was in a writing class with Ernest Hemingway. St. John, at age 16, lied about his age to enlist in the Navy during World War I. On his return from France, St. John became the campus correspondent for the Hartford Courant while attending Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. But he was soon expelled for trying to expose the college president's censorship of an outspoken English professor. St. John pursued journalism as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago American. In 1923, with his younger brother Archer St. John (1904 1955), he co-founded the Cicero Tribune in suburban Cicero, Illinois, and at 21, became the youngest editor-publisher in the United States. St. John published a series of exposes about Cicero brothels and other operations of gangster Al Capone. In response, on April 6, 1925, he was accosted by four Capone goons and beaten severely. He brashly complained to the police, and was invited back the next day to meet Capone in person. The gang leader offered St. John money which the reporter rejected and apologized, saying he liked newsmen and considered the exposés a form of advertising. SUbsequently, St. John joined the Associated Press and covered Franklin D. Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. In 1939, St. John moved to Europe to report on the imminent war for the Associated Press. For two years, St. John reported from the Balkans. The persecution of Jews that he witnessed during that period helped instill in him a deep and enduring interest in Israel, Jewish issues and anti-Semitism. Covering the January 1941 pogrom in Bucharest, when Romanian fascists tortured and killed about 170 Jews, marked a watershed for him. St. John hid a Jewish editor's family as a Christian fascist group called "The Brotherhood of the Archangel, Michael" rounded up several hundred Jews in the city. The next morning, St. John learned what had happened. The Jews were taken to a stockyard at the edge of the city. They were stripped naked and led up the ramp where cattle were slaughtered. One by one they were clubbed and their throats were slit. Their bleeding corpses were then hung on the meat hooks. "We sat around the table and I did more thinking than I had ever done before, " St. John says in a film, many years later. "I realized that I had been born into a group that had been doing this sort of thing for 2, 000 years and therefore had to bear some of the responsibility...for what had happened. They were Christians. They sang Christian hymns as they committed these atrocities. And so I promised myself that if I lived out what was happening in Rumania, if I lived out World War II, I would live out my life trying to atone for the sins of my group...for the atrocities committed in Bucharest by men born Christian and presumably exposed to Christian precepts they had so barbarically violated". He fled from Belgrade to Cairo with other newsmen when Hitler's troops overran Yugoslavia and was wounded in the right leg by shrapnel while riding in a Greek troop train. He returned home to New York, where he wrote "what I saw and smelled and heard." The resulting book, From the Land of Silent People, published in 1942, was his first, and a bestseller. [edit] NBC RadioAfter writing the book, St. John switched to broadcast reporting for NBC Radio, moving in 1942 to head its London bureau. He covered The Blitz, the Nazi bombing of the city, for a year before returning to Washington, D.C., and then New York to broadcast general war news. His broadcast brought the Americans the news about D Day, on June 6, 1944, and he was the first to announce the end of the Second World War on August 14, 1945. When he wrote a second book on Yugoslavia, The., Coward-McCann, Inc, 1962, 2, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. good. 22 cm, 303 pages. Index, some wear and soiling to boards, handwritten note (autographed by the author) stapled to front endpaper. Impression of the four staples attaching the signed note to the front free endpaper appears on the following pages (through page xvi); color from the metal in the staples has transferred to the half-title page following. Topcorner of page 215 is bent; page 249 is creased. McDonald was the first U.S. Ambassador to Israel, and his memoir is full of details of the fascinating early days of Israel's existence., Simon and Schuster, 1951, 2.5, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Comapny, Inc, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. good, fair to poor. 23 cm, 298, DJ quite worn, soiled, torn, and chipped. The author was a member of Haganah. This is a documented account of the preparation for the British evacuation of Palestine, plans to set up a Jewish government, and attempts at mediation by the United Nations., Doubleday & Comapny, Inc, 1962, 2, New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First U.S. Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. ix, [3], 308 pages. Occasional footnotes. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Vera Weizmann (November 27, 1881 - September 24, 1966), wife of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of the State of Israel, was a medical doctor and a Zionist activist. During Israel's War of Independence, Weizmann focused on the treatment and rehabilitation of wounded soldiers. Immediately after the war, she established the Association of the War of Independence Handicapped Veterans and served as its president. She also established two centers for the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers, Beit Kay in Nahariya and the Department of Rehabilitation at Sheba-Tel Hashomer Hospital. In addition to her activity in these organizations, Weizmann gave her support to many voluntary organizations such as ILAN, Magen David Adom, for which she served as President, and dozens of other private and institutional charitable endeavors. Derived from a Kirkus review: The memoirs of Mrs. Chaim Weizmann are invested with the qualities of character, exacting civilized standards, and independence of spirit which her collaborator, Mr. Tutaev remarks upon in his memorial foreword (Mrs. Weizmann died in 1966 after approving proofs of this book). They reveal also that Mrs. Weizmann participated in her husband's public life fully and intimately; her book is a personal record of the Zionist movement at the highest level. She writes of meeting Chaim for the first time when a medical student in Geneva; the thirty years in Britain fighting the Zionist cause; the years in Palestine. Personal memories of a private life lived subordinate to the public one: the loss of their pilot son Michael in World War II; the flowers on Balfour's high table which he gave Dr. Weizmann while he lay dying; the Zionist triumphs from the Balfour Declaration to the raising of the flag over the Waldorf in 1948. An effective, expressive collaboration; valuable memorabilia., Harper & Row, 1967, 2.75, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. ix, [3], 191, [5] pages. Frontis illustration. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on half-title page. Small scuff on front of DJ. This is one of the Jewish Lives series. Steve Gimbel occupies the Edwin T. and Cynthia S. Johnson Chair for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Gettysburg College where he is chair of the department of philosophy. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 ? 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for his mass?energy equivalence formula E = m c 2 {displaystyle E=mc^{2}}, which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation". Derived from a Kirkus review: How science, religion and politics shaped Einstein?s life and work. Gimbel gives special emphasis to Einstein?s connections to Judaism. Born to secular Jews in Germany in 1879, Einstein attended a Catholic school, where he was bullied for being ?the Jewish kid.? His response was rebellion: Continuing his education in Switzerland, his defiance against authorities of all kinds led to his renouncing his German nationality and eventually?in order to find a permanent job?taking on Swiss citizenship. Being a civil servant gave Einstein time to work on his own ideas, which culminated in publications that revolutionized thinking about matter, light, and Newtonian concepts of space, time, motion and mass. Einstein earned a Nobel Prize in 1921. Gimbel examines the role of anti-Semitism in Einstein?s difficulty in securing teaching appointments, as well as the scientist?s support of Zionism. The FBI considered his pacifism a sign of subversion and created a file on him., Yale University Press, 2015, 3<