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Personal impressions

Title
Personal impressions / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; with an introduction by Noel Annan.
Author
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors
Hardy, Henry.
Description
xxxii, 277 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"This collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciations of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world - sometimes both. The names of many of them are familiar - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, and others. With the exception of Roosevelt, he met them all and knew many of them well. For this expanded edition, four new portraits have been added - including those of Virginia Woolf and Edmund Wilson. This volume also contains a vivid and moving account of Berlin's meetings in Russia with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956. Perhaps the most fascinating of these "personal impressions" is found in the new epilogue, where Berlin describes the three strands of his own personality: Russian, English, and Jewish."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997
  • 1900-1999
  • Biography > 20th century
  • Biography
  • Historische Persönlichkeit
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Cultuurgeschiedenis
  • Bekende mensen
  • Philosophers > Great Britain > 20th century
  • Jewish philosophers > 20th century
  • Politicians > 20th century
  • Authors > 20th century
Note
  • "Expanded ed."--Cover.
  • "Including five additional essays."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Winston Churchill in 1940 -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Chaim Weizmann -- Einstein and Israel -- Yitzhak Sadeh -- L.B. Namier -- Felix Frankfurter at Oxford -- Richards Pares -- Hubert Henderson at All Souls -- J.L. Austin and the early beginnings of Oxford philosophy -- John Petrov Plamenatz -- Maurice Bowra -- David Cecil -- Memories of Virginia Woolf -- Edmund Wilson at Oxford -- Auberon Herbert -- Aldous Huxley -- Meetings with Russian writers in 1945 and 1956 -- Epilogue: the three strands in my life.
ISBN
  • 0691088586
  • 9780691088587
LCCN
00066863
OCLC
  • ocm45499684
  • 45499684
  • SCSB-1210871
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library