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Albert Einstein the Incorrigible Plagiarist Christopher Jon Bjerknes. Downers Grove, IL: XTX, Inc. 408 pp., $19.95.
There is something unsettling about this book. What do you do with a study that begins with a disclaimer that explicitly states it is intended solely for entertainment purposes; that due to human error, it may contain substantial mistakes as to content; that neither the author nor publisher has any responsibility for any harm or damage resulting from the use of any information, argument, or conclusion contained in it? It comes on like a sequel to The Da Vinci Code. That was a best seller and very entertaining, but more fantasy than history. So it may well be with this work which is, at best, unreliable.
In a very disjointed, slap-dash effort, the author makes the disturbing...