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Personal Impressions

Personal Impressions

by Isaiah Berlin (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $8.97

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    Paperback 1982

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Synopsis

This enthusiastically received collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciation of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world - sometimes in both. The names of many of them are familiar - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, L. B. Namier, J. L. Austin, Maurice Bowra. With the exception of Roosevelt he met them all, and he knew many of them well. For this new edition four new portraits have been added, including recollections of Virginia Woolf and Edmund Wilson. The volume ends with a vivid and moving account of Berlin's meetings in Russia with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 05 Mar 1998
ISBN 10: 071266601X
ISBN 13: 9780712666015
Book Overview: Matchless portraits of Churchill, Roosevelt, Huxley, Einstein, Pasternak and others, now supplemented by five new essays for the Pimlico edition.

Media Reviews
An enthralling collection...It is hard to think of any other writer who is so penetrating, so amusing, and yet so entirely free of malice -- Anthony Storr Spectator It is one of Berlin's most endearing characteristics that he can admire so many utterly diverse people, that he can tell us about them all, and see the point of them -- Mary Warnock Listener This is a very moving and serious book, as well as a delightful one -- Richard Cobb Guardian This splendid book brings the past to life... It bears the distinctive stamp of one of the great thinkers and writers of the age New York Review of Books Simply stunning -- Alan Ryan Sunday Times
Author Bio
Sir Isaiah Berlin, O.M., was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1909. He came to England in 1919 and was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Oxford, he was a a Fellow of All Souls College (1932-8, 1950-67), a Fellow of New College (1938-50), Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory (1957-67), first President of Wolfson College (1966-75), and President of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978. His achievements as a historian and expositor of ideas earned him the Erasmus, Lippincott, and Agnelli Prizes, and his lifelong defence of civil liberties earned him the Jerusalem Prize. He died in 1997.