{"product_id":"stargazing-in-the-atomic-age-essays-paperback","title":"Stargazing in the Atomic Age: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Goldman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Kirkus Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish scientists and artists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some of the most difficult questions posed by our age. Many had just fled Europe. Others were born in the United States to immigrants who had escaped Russia's pogroms. Alternately celebrated as mavericks and dismissed as eccentrics, they trespassed the boundaries of their own disciplines as the entrance to nations slammed shut behind them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStargazing in the Atomic Age\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Goldman interweaves personal and intellectual history in exuberant essays that cast new light on these figures and their virtuosic thinking. In lyric, lucent sentences that dance between biography and memoir as they connect innovation in science with achievement in the arts, Goldman yokes the central dramas of the modern age with the brilliant thinking of earlier eras. Here, Einstein plays Mozart to align mathematical principle with the music of the spheres and Rothko paints canvases whose tonalities echo the stark prose of Genesis. Nearby, Bellow evokes the dirt and dazzle of the Chicago streets, while upon the heels of World War II, Chagall illuminates stained glass no less buoyant than the \u003cbr\u003eeffervescent notes of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these essays, Goldman reminds readers that Jewish history offers as many illustrations of accomplishment as of affliction. At the same time, she gestures toward the ways in which experiments in science and art that defy partisanship can offer us inspiration during a newly divisive era.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eANNE GOLDMAN's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGettsyburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSouthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among other venues. Her essays have been named as notable in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Science and Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eBest American Travel Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. Nominated for a National Magazine Award, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Ahmanson\/Getty Foundation and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She is aprofessor of English at Sonoma State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.84 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49981072572664,"sku":"9780820358444","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/nUUE4olj829780820358444.webp?v=1783979711","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/stargazing-in-the-atomic-age-essays-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}