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050	0	0	_aB1618.B454 _bI45 1998
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100	1		_aIgnatieff, Michael. _9939
245	1	0	_aIsaiah Berlin _ba life _cMichael Ignatieff.
250			_a1st American ed.
260			_aNew York : _bMetropolitan Books, _c1998.
300			_a356 p. : _bports. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-338) and index.
520			_aIsaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. The son of a Riga timber merchant and the first Jew elected to a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, he was a presiding judge of intellectual life on both sides of the Atlantic for sixty years: historian of the Russian intelligentsia, biographer of Marx, scholar of the Romantic movement, and defender of the liberal idea of freedom against Soviet tyranny.
520	8		_aWhen he died in 1997, he was hailed as the most important liberal philosopher of his time. But Berlin's life was not only a life of the mind. Present at the crucial events of our age, he was in Washington during World War II, in Moscow at the dawn of the Cold War, in Israel as the new state came into being.
520	8		_aFor this definitive biography - the result of a remarkable ten-year collaboration between biographer and subject - Michael Ignatieff, himself a leading public intellectual, interviewed Berlin extensively and was granted complete access to his papers, one of the largest archives in Anglo-American cultural history.
520	8		_aIgnatieff charts the emergence of a unique liberal temperament - serene, comic, secular, and unafraid - and he examines its influence on Berlin's vision of liberalism, which stressed the often tragic nature of political and moral choice.
600	1	0	_aBerlin, Isaiah, _d1909-1997. _9940
650		0	_aPhilosophers _zGreat Britain _vBiography. _9941
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