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Personal Impressions

By (author) Isaiah Berlin

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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 Impressions collects 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 Impressions is a vibrant demonstration of Berlin's belief that ideas truly live only through people.

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Publisher | Vintage Publishing
Published date | 4 Oct 2018
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 528
Dimensions | 234 x 153 x 37mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 631g
ISBN | 978-1-8459-5249-5
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / historical


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