Personal impressions / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; foreword by Hermione Lee ; afterword by Noel Annan.

Third edition.

9781400851683 electronic book
1400851688 electronic book
9780691157702 paperback ; alkaline paper
0691157707 paperback ; alkaline paper

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

English

1 online resource (527 pages) : illustrations

CT120 .B37 2014

(OCoLC)875819047

"In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers. These include Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Boris Pasternak, and Anna Akhmatova. With the exception of Roosevelt, Berlin met them all, and he knew many of them well. Other figures recalled here include the Zionist Yitzhak Sadeh, the U.S. Supreme Court judge Felix Frankfurter, the classicist and wit Maurice Bowra, the philosopher J.L. Austin, and the literary critic Edmund Wilson. For this edition, ten new pieces have been added, including portraits of David Ben-Gurion, Maynard and Lydia Keynes, and Stephen Spender, as well as Berlin's autobiographical reflections on Jewish Oxford and his Oxford undergraduate years. Rich and enlightening, Personal Impressions is a vibrant demonstration of Berlin's belief that ideas truly live only through people."--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version: Berlin, Isaiah. Personal Impressions : Third Edition. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014

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