''Fascinating and vivid'' CARLO ROVELLI

Dropout, Pacifist, Physicist, Casanova, Refugee, Genius . . . Who Was Albert Einstein?

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and E = mc2, Einstein was also a high-school failure with an FBI file 1,400 pages long.

From his lost daughter to escaping the Nazis, from dining with Charlie Chaplin to refusing the Presidency of Israel, Einstein in Time and Space tells 99 unexpected stories of the man who redefined how we view our universe and our place within it.

''Unforgettable'' the i, Book of the Month

''Compelling'' Wall Street Journal