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Personal Impressions

By Isaiah Berlin

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Digital
Year
2012
ISBN
9781448155477, 9780712666015, 1448155479
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1909004 bytes)
Pages
320\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2022-02-18 22:29:43

Description

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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