List of illustrations viii Author's preface to the first edition ix Editor's preface xi Introduction by Noel Annan xv Winston Churchill in 1940 1 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 24 Chaim Weizmann 34 Einstein and Israel 66 Yitzhak Sadeh 78 L. B. Namier 91 Felix Frankfurter at Oxford 112 Richard Pares 120 Hubert Henderson at All Souls 125 J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy 130 John Petrov Plamenatz 146 Maurice Bowra 154 David Cecil 160 Memories of Virginia Woolf 168 Edmund Wilson at Oxford 172 Auberon Herbert 183 Aldous Huxley I89 Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956 198 Epilogue: The Three Strands in My Life 255 Index 261
Berlin was one of the foremost intellectuals in the English language--one of the finest historians of ideas in the latter half of the century and a rightly celebrated political thinker... These essays tell us about him as well as his subjects. -- Mitchell Cohen, City University of New York
Isaiah Berlin was, until his death in 1997, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was renowned as an essayist and as the author of many books, among them "Karl Marx, Four Essays on Liberty, Russian Thinkers, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind," and from Princeton, "Concepts and Categories, Personal Impressions, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas," and "Three Critics of the Enlightenment". Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.
"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
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