Albert Einstein. Part II…
Albert Einstein was investigated and harassed by the FBI as I have learned in previous research on that matter. A matter of personal consequence. Like Ernest Hemmingway, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, he decried totalitarianism and exploitation wherever it could be found. He made some of the ‘wrong’ pacifist, socialist, and League of Nations friends, earning him American investigative scrutiny. One such friend was Upton Sinclair.
Upton Sinclair first approached Einstein in a letter in 1930, noting that the two of them repeatedly found themselves on the front page of Le Monde newspaper. In particular, the New York Times had published an article on Einstein’s experiments in telepathy and clairvoyance, something Sinclair’s wife had been researching for three years, and she was coming out with in a book, “Mental Radio”, both in English and in German. Albert Edison ended up writing the preface.
Upton Sinclair was noted for his Socialist Newspaper, The New Leader, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which Einstein recommended in writing along with others. Sinclair wrote “The Jungle,” “Love’s Pilrimmage,” “Oil,” and “Boston” among other later novels and plays that all showed concern for the unemployed and the exploited. Sinclair offered help arranging assistance when Einstein needed to leave Germany in 1933.
By 1941, Einstein was writing to Sinclair regarding what he considered a dangerous situation for Socialists in the US, and the tradgedies involved in what had overtaken any true socialist movement in Russia.
In 1944 Einstein confessed how little time he ever had for reading the novels Sinclair always sent, but how profoundly effective he thought Sinclair was as a writer bringing influence artistically, ‘reaching’ people more effectively than ‘objective reasoning’ ever could.
In a letter in 1947, Einstein related the contents of a new Sinclair play, to his own concern regarding an all-powerful FBI. And by 1950, Einstein was expressing concern over military nationalistic totalitarianism throughout the world, including in America.
Perhaps we think Albert Einstein was highly analytic, prone to use scientific hypothesis and observation, and could draw accurate conclusions only in one field?
© Copyright 2006 Dean Levinson
Albert Einstein was investigated and harassed by the FBI as I have learned in previous research on that matter. A matter of personal consequence. Like Ernest Hemmingway, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, he decried totalitarianism and exploitation wherever it could be found. He made some of the ‘wrong’ pacifist, socialist, and League of Nations friends, earning him American investigative scrutiny. One such friend was Upton Sinclair.
Upton Sinclair first approached Einstein in a letter in 1930, noting that the two of them repeatedly found themselves on the front page of Le Monde newspaper. In particular, the New York Times had published an article on Einstein’s experiments in telepathy and clairvoyance, something Sinclair’s wife had been researching for three years, and she was coming out with in a book, “Mental Radio”, both in English and in German. Albert Edison ended up writing the preface.
Upton Sinclair was noted for his Socialist Newspaper, The New Leader, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which Einstein recommended in writing along with others. Sinclair wrote “The Jungle,” “Love’s Pilrimmage,” “Oil,” and “Boston” among other later novels and plays that all showed concern for the unemployed and the exploited. Sinclair offered help arranging assistance when Einstein needed to leave Germany in 1933.
By 1941, Einstein was writing to Sinclair regarding what he considered a dangerous situation for Socialists in the US, and the tradgedies involved in what had overtaken any true socialist movement in Russia.
In 1944 Einstein confessed how little time he ever had for reading the novels Sinclair always sent, but how profoundly effective he thought Sinclair was as a writer bringing influence artistically, ‘reaching’ people more effectively than ‘objective reasoning’ ever could.
In a letter in 1947, Einstein related the contents of a new Sinclair play, to his own concern regarding an all-powerful FBI. And by 1950, Einstein was expressing concern over military nationalistic totalitarianism throughout the world, including in America.
Perhaps we think Albert Einstein was highly analytic, prone to use scientific hypothesis and observation, and could draw accurate conclusions only in one field?
© Copyright 2006 Dean Levinson
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