Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great Man, first published in 1944, recounts the personal life of physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955). The book was written by Einstein's son-in-law, who married his daughter Margot in Berlin in 1930. Einstein was a simple, direct man, but remains today larger-than-life, and as author Marianoff writes, "Einstein's life is not an exciting one. It is not filled with the rush and sweep of spectacular adventures. It has none of the scope and danger of the exp...