Personal Impressions

"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

List of Illustrations xi Foreword by Hermione Lee xv Author's Preface to the First Edition xxxi Editor's Preface xxxv Winston Churchill in 1940 1 Hubert Henderson at All Souls 30 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 37 Richard Pares 50 Chaim Weizmann 57 Felix Frankfurter at Oxford 97 Aldous Huxley 108 L. B. Namier 121 Maurice Bowra 148 J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy 156 John Petrov Plamenatz 177 Auberon Herbert 187 Einstein and Israel 195 Where Was I? 211 Maynard and Lydia Keynes 218 Nahum Goldmann 225 Memories of Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion 235 Martin Cooper 243 Yitzhak Sadeh 252 Adam von Trott 269 David Cecil 273 Edmund Wilson at Oxford 283 Memories of Virginia Woolf 298 Alexander and Salome Halpern 304 Jewish Oxford 323 Herbert Hart 330 Corpuscle 337 Stephen Spender 347 Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956 356 Epilogue: The Three Strands in My Life 433 Afterword by Noel Annan 441 Index 465