Table of Contents

A call for letters; List of illustrations; Preface; A personal impression of Isaiah Berlin; Abbreviations; Family trees; The Letters: London; Oxford; New York; Washington; Moscow; Leningrad; Washington (reprise); Appendices: Freedom; Reports for Faber and Faber; Dispatches from Washington; Zionist politics in wartime Washington; Supplementary notes; Chronology; Select biographical glossary; Index of correspondents; General index.

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The first volume of Isaiah Berlin's letters.

Reviews

'Isaiah Berlin was one of the great letter writers of the twentieth century: witty, indiscrete, passionate, wise and unbuttoned. He also lived through extraordinary moments of 20th century history, and these letters capture these moments: Nazi brown shirts in Austrian cafes in the 1930s, German refugees in Jerusalem, the debates at All Souls about the war, Washington during the height of the Churchill-Roosevelt alliance. In Henry Hardy, Berlin has found an ideal editor: scrupulous, self-effacing, dogged and tenaciously accurate. The result is one of the great editing achievements in modern letters.' Michael Ignatieff, author of Isaiah Berlin: A Life