Review: It's disappointing - the series has gone the sales pitch route :((
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2014
Having read three of William Wyatt's books (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Einstein - in this order) I can state that all of them are well written and push the right buttons.It appears the series is undergoing an overhaul because this book about Einstein features a "My Free Gift to You" page. Ohhh, please... does anybody in this country still believe that?  Most  people in the United States know that these "gifts" are attempts to collect our email addresses, to inundate us with sales pitches in the future.That is a first in this series - my editions of "Rockefeller" and "Carnegie" don't.Having read "Rockefeller" and "Carnegie' in October 2013, something else caught my eye when I started to read "Einstein".It was the paragraph:"...I have studied Albert Einstein's life since my earliest adolescence. Among other creative minds , he is my hero, my guidance, and above all, my mentor. He was a self made man. Against all odds, he fought against adversity and forged a legacy. He constructed an empire with his own hands, and for that he will be remembered until the end of days....""Ah", readers must think, "This author has studied Einstein's life forever..." Isn't it impressive that he admired Einstein, even as a teenager?"Now quoting now from "Rockefeller" and "Carnegie":"... I have studied Rockefeller's life since my earliest adolescence. Among other tycoons, he is my hero, my guidance, and above all, my mentor. He was a self made man. Against all odds, he fought against adversity and forged a legacy. He constructed an empire with his own hands, and for that he will be remembered until the end of days.... ""...I have studied Carnegie's life since my earliest adolescence. Among other tycoons, he is my hero, my guidance, and above all, my mentor. He was a self made man. Against all odds, he fought against adversity and forged a legacy . He constructed an empire with his own hands, and for that he will be remembered until the end of days.... "AND:"...Albert Einstein's life is full ground-breaking lessons & advice we can learn from. His whole existence is an example of determination, willpower, and the desire to destroy impeding barriers to become all that one can become...""John D Rockefeller's life is full ground-breaking lessons & advice we can learn from. His whole existence is an example of determination, willpower, and the desire to destroy impeding barriers to become all that one can become...""...Carnegie's life is full ground-breaking lessons & advice we can learn from. His whole existence is an example of determination, willpower, and the desire to destroy impeding barriers to become all that one can become..."Even the double space between the comma after the word "willpower" and "and" is the same.? ? ? ... Really... ? ? ?Somehow, everything that I liked about Rockefeller and Carnegie gives way to a for me "canned, commercial approach".  In "Einstein" I also found one of my negative trigger words - the word "massive".  Einstein's Top #7 Lessons To Achieve Massive Success &Build; an Extraordinary Life... "What is "massive" success?World renown author and among Time Magazine's "100 most Influential Persons (2012)" Malcolm Gladwell has proven in impressive manner that in order to achieve the massive success of e.g. the Beatles or Bill Gates, or even the success of Jewish law firms, the person's birth year and the need for a certain product play a factor. E.g. both, Gates and Jobs, were born in 1955. Therefore it is clear that had Bill Gates been born only one decade later he would not have been able to achieve his "massive" success, because Steve Jobs would have claimed the industry for himself - alone - and, vice versa. Would both of them have been born 20 years earlier, none of them would have been able to score "massive" success in the computer industry.Opposite to "success" the phrase "massive success" is nothing else but bait (or a sales pitch) for readers. "Massive success" is determined by a lot of other factors.Disappointed that with this book, published in 2014, William Wyatt has decided to go this obvious sales pitch route.Gisela Hausmann, author & blogger