{"product_id":"personal-impressions-9780691157702","title":"Personal Impressions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a collection of remarkable biographical portraits. This book brings to life a range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526160163159,"sku":"9780691157702","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691157702.jpg?v=1731863179","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/personal-impressions-9780691157702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}