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020 _a9781845952495
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_nPrism Books,Kochi
041 _aEnglish
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_bBER/PE
100 _aBerlin, Isaiah
245 _aPERSONAL IMPRESSIONS : Twentieth-Century Portraits
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260 _aLondon
_bPimlico
_c2018/01/01
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500 _aThe 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.
650 _a prominent twentieth-century thinkers
700 _aHardy,Henry (ed.)
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