Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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... talk before it was lost ? That was how this book began in September 1987. I was not a former student or surrogate son : he seems to have been born without a paternal instinct . I was simply there , initially , to interview him . I taped ...
... talk before it was lost ? That was how this book began in September 1987. I was not a former student or surrogate son : he seems to have been born without a paternal instinct . I was simply there , initially , to interview him . I taped ...
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... talking . " His rooms in Corpus became a ' place of resort ' for talk and gossip . One friend , Bernard Spencer , was a ... talk in Isaiah's rooms was about concerts , plays , poems and novels , not the Wall Street crash , the German ...
... talking . " His rooms in Corpus became a ' place of resort ' for talk and gossip . One friend , Bernard Spencer , was a ... talk in Isaiah's rooms was about concerts , plays , poems and novels , not the Wall Street crash , the German ...
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... talk to the leading moderates . With these figures safely in the British camp , the British Government had nothing to fear from either the American administration or the Jewish lobby . Berlin's argument , though music to Foreign Office ...
... talk to the leading moderates . With these figures safely in the British camp , the British Government had nothing to fear from either the American administration or the Jewish lobby . Berlin's argument , though music to Foreign Office ...
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