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Review title: Opportunity Lost
Product review: A solid "C" at best (not the c for the speed of light either). The main text of the book is a rather superficial history of one of the most important scientific theories. The substance is in the notes found at the end of the book. I only found them and realized their value after I had read the main text. A real shame.Typical of so much of current writing flowing from academia, the author wastes time and space sniping at his perception of racism, sexism, social discrimination. He even appears compelled to throw some worshipful comments about Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela as though that was part of the required template among profs these days.The ironic, and in all likelihood unintended, conclusion from reading the book is that, but for racism, sexism and social class ostracism, the theory of relativity would never have been worked out.
