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Offers a collection of remarkable biographical portraits. This book brings to life a range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers.
"Welcoming and rewarding... [Berlin] is at his most conversational. This splendid book bring[s] the past to life."--Peter Stansky, New York Times Book Review "[Berlin's] writing has all the elan of conversation. [His] sense of humor ... Preserves a frank delight in human contradiction."--V. S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books "Contains many amusing and revealing anecdotes."--Dan Jacobson, Times Literary Supplement "An amazingly enjoyable book."--Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman "Marvellously good reading."--Alan Ryan, Sunday Times (London) "A thrilling and agreeable work... [W]armly commended."--Peter Jay, Washington Post Book World "An enthralling collection... It is hard to think of any other writer who is so penetrating, so amusing, and yet so entirely free of malice."--Anthony Storr, Spectator "Marvellous... It is one of Berlin's most endearing characteristics that he can admire so many utterly diverse people, that he can tell us about them all, and see the point of them."--Mary Warnock, Listener "Provides an invigorating spectacle of the liberal mind at its most assured and unobstructed, glorying in the variety of human character and achievement."--Anthony Quinton, Encounter
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, and The Roots of Romanticism (all Princeton).
"Welcoming and rewarding... [Berlin] is at his most conversational. This splendid book bring[s] the past to life."--Peter Stansky, New York Times Book Review "[Berlin's] writing has all the elan of conversation. [His] sense of humor ... Preserves a frank delight in human contradiction."--V. S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books "Contains many amusing and revealing anecdotes."--Dan Jacobson, Times Literary Supplement "An amazingly enjoyable book."--Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman "Marvellously good reading."--Alan Ryan, Sunday Times (London) "A thrilling and agreeable work... [W]armly commended."--Peter Jay, Washington Post Book World "An enthralling collection... It is hard to think of any other writer who is so penetrating, so amusing, and yet so entirely free of malice."--Anthony Storr, Spectator "Marvellous... It is one of Berlin's most endearing characteristics that he can admire so many utterly diverse people, that he can tell us about them all, and see the point of them."--Mary Warnock, Listener "Provides an invigorating spectacle of the liberal mind at its most assured and unobstructed, glorying in the variety of human character and achievement."--Anthony Quinton, Encounter
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, and The Roots of Romanticism (all Princeton).