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As Freeman Dyson writes in the preface, Einstein鈥檚 life was full of paradoxes, and this lovely coffee table book, with essays by Stephen Hawking, Philip Anderson, Steven Weinberg and others, reveals them all. Philip Glass invokes Einstein the musician, the dreamer, the poet, the artist. It has the great man describing in his own words his 鈥渞evolutionary鈥� new ideas, and the suspense as the results of the experiments confirming general relativity were announced. Bernard Cohen鈥檚 reminiscence of his interview with the physicist 鈥� Einstein鈥檚 last 鈥� gives a glimpse of the man behind the genius.