Building: Letters 1960-1975
by Isaiah Berlin
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0701185767
- ISBN 13
- 9780701185763
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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Synopsis
SIR ISAIAH BERLIN, O.M., was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1909. He came to England in 1919 and was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Oxford, he was a Fellow of All Souls College (1932-8, 1950-67), a Fellow of New College (1938-50), Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory (1957-67), first President of Wolfson College (1966-75), and President of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978. His achievements as a historian and expositor of ideas earned him the Erasmus, Lippincott, and Agnelli Prizes, and his lifelong defence of civil liberties earned him the Jerusalem Prize. He died in 1997.
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- Bookseller
- Moe's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1144631
- Title
- Building: Letters 1960-1975
- Author
- Isaiah Berlin
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0701185767
- ISBN 13
- 9780701185763
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Smr
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