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.
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