Ringing endorsement

Paranoid? I just read a quirky-good book on Einstein called Driving Mr. Albert. The author chases down the rumor that Einstein's brain is preserved in a jar of formaldahyde and befriends the man that has it. Then him, the guy, and the brain drive cross country. Did I mention it was a true story?

So Kevin, how does one hear about such a book? It sounds very quirky and also sounds like a good screenlay! So then it's true, Einstein's brain is preserved? And how did this man get his hands on it?

That's supposed to be screenPlay!

Typo?

Or something else?

My friend Pat Jeffries turned me on to it. Yes his brain is preserved. The coroner that did the autopsy saved it. Another doctor took his eyes and still has them. Apparently, preserving the brains of people of note was common up till the sixties (Lenin and Stalin to name two). It's a funny book with a lot of facts about Einsteins life. He didn't win the Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity, was a good student in school and a lousy husband, and never came up with anything of consequence from the age of thirty on but was treated like rock star till the end of his life. He died because he refused an operation that would have given him another ten or fifteen years.

Okay, I'm interested. I might have to read that.