Personal impressions
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Personal impressions
Princeton University Press, 2014
3rd ed. / foreword by Hermione Lee
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Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi Foreword by Hermione Lee xv Author's Preface to the First Edition xxxi Editor's Preface xxxv Winston Churchill in 1940 1 Hubert Henderson at All Souls 30 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 37 Richard Pares 50 Chaim Weizmann 57 Felix Frankfurter at Oxford 97 Aldous Huxley 108 L. B. Namier 121 Maurice Bowra 148 J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy 156 John Petrov Plamenatz 177 Auberon Herbert 187 Einstein and Israel 195 Where Was I? 211 Maynard and Lydia Keynes 218 Nahum Goldmann 225 Memories of Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion 235 Martin Cooper 243 Yitzhak Sadeh 252 Adam von Trott 269 David Cecil 273 Edmund Wilson at Oxford 283 Memories of Virginia Woolf 298 Alexander and Salome Halpern 304 Jewish Oxford 323 Herbert Hart 330 Corpuscle 337 Stephen Spender 347 Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956 356 Epilogue: The Three Strands in My Life 433 Afterword by Noel Annan 441 Index 465
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