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This collection of pen-portraits of the renowned public
intellectual Isaiah Berlin, published to mark the centenary of his
birth, brings him vividly to life from many vantage-points:
essential reading for all who seek to understand the full range of
his impact. Isaiah Berlin was born a century ago. One of the most
celebrated British thinkers of the twentieth century, he was a
tireless champion of freedom and diversity against control and
conformity. His generous, open vision of life is displayed with
special immediacy in his brilliant pen-portraits of contemporaries,
Personal Impressions, in which he sees the point of radically
differing personalities, enters into their distinctive outlooks,
and describeshis encounters with them, in arrestingly idiosyncratic
prose. The Book of Isaiah turns the tables on Berlin, offering a
series of personal impressions of him and his ideas by a range of
people who knew him, or have been affected by his work. This
multi-faceted testimony enriches and supplements Michael
Ignatieff's celebrated authorised biography. The volume includes
tributes written when Berlin died, essays specially commissioned
from friends and from students of his work, and a previously
unpublished family memoir by Berlin's father, which preserves for
his son, and for posterity, the story of his Hasidic forebears, and
of the many relatives murdered by the Nazis. The result is a
collection indispensable both for existing enthusiasts and for
those who are curious to learn about Berlin's unique, compelling
appeal. HENRY HARDY is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and one
of Isaiah Berlin's Literary Trustees.
In the midst of the crises of the Second World War, Roosevelt and
Stalin secretly exchanged three hundred letters, published together
now for the first time My Dear Mr. Stalin is the first publication
that contains the complete correspondence between Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. This collection of more than three
hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any
language, is an invaluable primary source for understanding the
relationship that developed between these two great world leaders
during a time of supreme world crisis. The correspondence, secret
at the time, begins with a letter Roosevelt wrote to Stalin
offering aid to the Soviet Union following Hitler's surprise attack
in 1941. It ends with a message that was an attempt to minimize the
differences between the two leaders, approved by Roosevelt only
minutes before his death in 1945. The book traces the evolution of
their unique relationship, revealing the statesmanship of the two
men and their thinking about the grave events of their time. An
informative introduction to the volume and generous annotations set
the letters in context.
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