‘I find Isaiah Berlin’s letters fascinating and cannot
bear to put the book down. What a brilliant correspondent he was! And how
superbly annotated and edited the book is!’ |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr |
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‘Isaiah Berlin was a man of great charm, intelligence,
curiosity and distinction.’ |
Allan Massie, Literary Review |
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‘The flow of conversation is magically preserved
here; but so is the intellectual substance’ |
Roy Foster, Financial Times |
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‘[An] unstoppably clever, perceptive, serio-comic
epistolary style … a great letter-writer’ |
Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph |
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‘[H]e brought … a clear-eyed, unintimidated defence
of liberty, expressed in prose that spread this thinking to every university,
decent bookshop and school in the West … if that is not a great achievement,
it is hard to know what might be.’ |
Andrew Marr, Daily Telegraph |
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‘It tells the entrancing story of a brilliant man
waking up to the world’ |
Derwent May, The Times |
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‘The letters in this book, magnificently edited by
Henry Hardy … bring back an echo of [Berlin’s] life-enhancing conversation
… Isaiah’s goodness suffuses these letters.’ |
Raymond Carr, Spectator |
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‘Berlin’s correspondence has the wit and flow that
friends prized in his conversation … It gives us the inimitable voice of
a generous, magnanimous intellect’ |
Edmund Fawcett, New Statesman |
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‘the story is exciting … many readers will surely
sign up for more’ |
Richard D. North, Independent |
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‘full of insights about everyone and everything.
He was an alpha-level gossip, the genius kind … a conversation of wit and
substance that you never want to end’ |
Michael Pye, Scotsman |
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