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The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

By Daniel Brook
Hardcover
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By Daniel Brook
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A New Yorker Best Book of 2025


An illuminating portrait of a lost thinker, German-Jewish sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld.

More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the "Einstein of Sex," grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativity. Today, he's been largely forgotten.

Journalist Daniel Brook retraces Hirschfeld's rollicking life and reinvigorates his legacy, recovering one of the great visionaries of the twentieth century. In an era when gay...

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