Einstein at home / Friedrich Herneck ; translated, with an introduction by Josef Eisinger ; foreword by Alice Calaprice.

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by Herneck, Friedrich, author.
Call Number 530.092
Publication Date 2016
Summary These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life of Albert Einstein come from a series of interviews with Herta Waldow, a housekeeper who lived with Einstein and his wife and daughter from 1927 to 1933 at their residence in Berlin. After World War II, science historian Friedrich Herneck interviewed Ms. Waldow and published the conversations in the former East Germany. Unavailable in English till now, these five interviews offer fascinating glimpses into the great scientist's daily routines while he lived as a celebrated scientist in Weimar Germany. Einstein's well-known idiosyncrasies come to life in these conversations: his disheveled hair that was only poorly trimmed by his myopic wife, his love of classical music, his playing of the violin to help him think, his delight in sailing, his wide circle of friends and many social engagements, and his female companions besides his wife. Many celebrity acquaintances are also mentioned: from movie star Charlie Chaplin and conductor Erich Kleiber to writers Thomas and Heinrich Mann and fellow scientists Max Planck, Max Born, and Erwin SchrOdinger. With a detailed introduction that puts these interviews in context, these colorful conversations create a vivid picture of Albert Einstein the man. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Letters to Alice : birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch dynasty / edited and annotated by Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick ; with a foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck.

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by Kleberg, Robert Justus, 1853-1932.
Call Number 976.4113 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary "In the summer of 1881, Robert Justus Kleberg rode across the hot, dusty South Texas brush country to the palatial home of Capt. Richard King to consult with the cattle baron about attending to his legal affairs. On that same journey, the young lawyer also first laid eyes on Alice King, "Princess of the Wild Horse Desert." Neither of their lives would ever be the same. Published for the first time in this book, the love letters written by Kleberg to Alice Gertrudis King provide a glimpse of the lives of two of the most influential people in Texas history. Editors Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick have also provided generous documentation and annotation of these important primary documents from the Special Collections at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, affording historians and interested readers an insider's view of one of the world's greatest ranching empires as it transitioned from its founders to the next generation. Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King-Ranch Dynasty represents the only existing collection of letters between any of the great Texas cattle barons and their wives. Although a great deal is already known about the ranch and its development, Monday and Vick present for the first time Robert Justus Kleberg's personal perspective on his first meeting with Alice King, their early courtship, the difficulties obtaining her parents' permission to marry, and the poignant time surrounding Captain King's death."--Provided by publisher.
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Einstein at home / Friedrich Herneck ; translated, with an introduction by Josef Eisinger ; foreword by Alice Calaprice.

Letters to Alice : birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch dynasty / edited and annotated by Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick ; with a foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck.