Personal Impressions : : Updated Edition / / Isaiah Berlin; Henry Hardy.
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,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Updated edition with a New Foreword |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 18 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Author's Preface to the First Edition
- Editor's Preface
- Winston Churchill in 1940
- Hubert Henderson at All Souls
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Richard Pares
- Chaim Weizmann
- Felix Frankfurter at Oxford
- Aldous Huxley
- L. B. Namier
- Maurice Bowra
- J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy
- John Petrov Plamenatz
- Auberon Herbert
- Einstein and Israel
- Where Was I?
- Maynard and Lydia Keynes
- Nahum Goldmann
- Memories of Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion
- Martin Cooper
- Yitzhak Sadeh
- Adam von Trott
- David Cecil
- Edmund Wilson at Oxford
- Memories of Virginia Woolf
- Alexander and Salome Halpern
- Jewish Oxford
- Herbert Hart
- Corpuscle
- Stephen Spender
- Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956
- Epilogue: The Three Strands in My Life
- Afterword / Annan, Noel
- Index / Matthews, Douglas