What People are saying about "The Einstein File" 
5/10/2004

"Jerome's is a highly readable book - investigative journalism that qualifies as academic history. It is also scary. Hoover thought Eleanor Roosevelt was only a degree less subversive than Einstein, although neither was as threatening to his manhood at the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr."

Guy Davenport
Harper's Magazine, August, 2002

"Perhaps the book will also help more people understand why some of the tactics being engineered by Attorney General John Ashcroft are such a concern."

Dave Zweifel,
Editor, The Capital Times,
Madison, WI, May 10, 2002.

"In the McCarthy era, Einstein saw reflections of the fascism he fled Germany to avoid. In today's developing climate of secrecy, scientists may see reflections of the Einstein file."

Robert Park,
American Physical Society, "What's New,"
May 24, 2002

For the first time, we have a book on intelligence gathering of a sort not normally associated with Einstein. With wit and precision, Fred Jerome documents the invasion of privacy of one of America's most prominent citizens.

Robert Schulmann,
former director, Einstein Papers Project

A compelling page-turner, vividly recalling an infamous time in our history, when even America's most loyal citizens were under suspicion if they were not always in agreement with government policy. After all, it was Einstein who warned Roosevelt about the possibility that Germany could be building an atomic bomb--a fact that seems to have escaped the FBI in its desperate search for Soviet connections. A timely topic even fifty years later.

Alice Calaprice,
Author of "The Quotable Einstein" and "The Expanded Quotable Einstein"

A convincing portrayal of Albert Einstein as a purposeful and discriminating political activist who helped turn the tide against McCarthyism during the 1950's.

Priscilla Johnson McMillan,
Associate of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University

The Einstein File is a frightening look at a dark past, hopefully gone forever. It also reestablishes Einstein as a committed social activist, anti-racist, anti-war, critic of capitalism, whose daring extended beyond mathematics.

Julian Bond

Fred Jerome's investigative gem details the other life of Albert Einstein, a life most of us have never known about, but which made him a prime target of Hoover-McCarthy Gestapoism. Yet despite those hysterical times, and the ominous parallels between then and now, readers of this breakthrough book will draw hope in discovering the strength and courage that complimented Einstein's genius.

Paul Delaney,
former NY Times reporter and editor and a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

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