Abstract
Abraham Pais is a well-known theoretical physicist, who in recent years has devoted himself to the history of science. He knew Einstein personally from 1946 until his death in 1955. In 1983 Pais's biography of Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, won an American Book Award. This book is a companion volume to his earlier biography, providing new inputs, reproducing a few previously published articles, and devoting the entire second half of the book to discussions of Einstein and the press. The epigraph he has chosen for the volume is a quote from Einstein from the New York Times in 1944, "Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me? although he is quick to point out that the statement is not precise. The central purpose of this book is to show how Einstein was perceived by the outside world of non-scientists. The extensive treatment of Einstein and the press is the result of the author's conviction that "the world-wide nature of his renown was the result of the attention he had received from the media.