Albert Einstein

#AskTheMayor; NJ Governor’s Race: Bill Brennan; Trump, Comey, Congress; Walter Isaacson on Einstein

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 11, 2017

Coming up on today's show:

  • Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Bill Brennan, a community activist and former Teaneck firefighter, makes his case to be the next governor of New Jersey, ahead of the June 6 primary.
  • Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY, and Evan Osnos, staff writer for the New Yorker and author of, now in paperback, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (FS&G, 2014), talk about the latest news from Washington.
  • The new TV series "Genius" is based on Walter Isaacson's biography of Albert Einstein. Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe (Simon & Schuster Media Tie-In edition, 2017), revisits the themes of creativity and freedom that Einstein's story highlights.

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