Personal Impressions - Hardcover

Berlin, Isaiah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670548332 ISBN 13: 9780670548330

Publisher: Viking, 1981

Synopsis

Essays recall Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, various Russian writers, and other twentieth century figures the author has known.

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From the Back Cover:

"Berlin was one of the foremost intellectuals in the English language--one of the finest historians of ideas in the latter half of the century and a rightly celebrated political thinker. . . . These essays tell us about him as well as his subjects."--Mitchell Cohen, City University of New York

About the Author:

Sir Isaiah Berlin, O.M., was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1909. He came to England in 1919 and was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Oxford, he was a a Fellow of All Souls College (1932-8, 1950-67), a Fellow of New College (1938-50), Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory (1957-67), first President of Wolfson College (1966-75), and President of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978. His achievements as a historian and expositor of ideas earned him the Erasmus, Lippincott, and Agnelli Prizes, and his lifelong defence of civil liberties earned him the Jerusalem Prize. He died in 1997.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0670548332
• ISBN 13: 9780670548330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 219