Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 038533303X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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From time to time, he has given favored specialists a slice or two to analyze, but the results have been mixed. Yes, I've admitted it. Driving Mr. The brain, though, became the subject of many an urban legend, and Harvey was transformed into a modern Robin Hood, having snatched neurological riches from the establishment and distributed them piecemeal to the curious and the faithful around the world. After Thomas Harvey performed Einstein's autopsy in 1955, he made off with the key body part. I want to hold it, coddle it, measure its weight in my palm, hand
Kerouac meets Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil A Customer I read this book in a single day, laughing out loud every few pages and ignoring incoming phonecalls, visitors, and mealtimes along the way--whatever might come between me and Driving Mr. Albert. It's a quirky, sweet, smart, and sometimes sad tale built on the backs of thre. Great Brook, Brings Back Memories Jumper was one of my favorite books as a teenager. Reading it as an adult makes me realize how much I have changed and how my views of the world and society have changed as well. The book's main character is a teenager and it is written through his understanding of the worl. "Saw the movie first and found the book to be" according to Scifirdr. Saw the movie first and found the book to be a vastly different story. This book spent a lot of time on character development but in the end there were lots of unanswered questions. Perhaps the author was laying the foundation for a sequel? While this book was a pleasant re
Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave New Jersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein's perplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. And kept it for over forty years. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique road trips in modern literature.. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. And riding along as the imaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-driven genius, the original galactic slacker