Einstein on politics : his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism Zionism war peace and the bomb In Einstein on Politics leading Einstein scholars David Rowe and Robert Schulmann gather Einsteins most important public and private political writings and put them into historical context. The book reveals a little known Einstein not the ineffectual and naive idealist of popular imagination but a principled shrewd pragmatist whose stands on political issues reflected the depth of his humanity. BOOK JACKET