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The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal Impressions
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova- Isaiah Berlin's Personal Impressionscollects the essayist and intellectual historian's most remarkable portraits of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, writers and politicians.
For this third, enlarged 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 Impressionsis a vibrant demonstration of Berlin's belief that ideas truly live only through people.
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova- Isaiah Berlin's Personal Impressionscollects the essayist and intellectual historian's most remarkable portraits of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, writers and politicians.
For this third, enlarged 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 Impressionsis a vibrant demonstration of Berlin's belief that ideas truly live only through people.
| ISBN-13 | 9781845952495 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1845952499 |
| Weight | 1.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.60 x 9.25 In |
| List Price | $31.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 528 pages |
| Publisher | Random House UK |
| Published On | 2019-01-01 |
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