Moderation or Death
Christopher Hitchens: Isaiah Berlin, 26 November 1998
Isaiah Berlin: A Life
by Michael Ignatieff.
Chatto, 386 pp., £20, October 1998,0 7011 6325 9 Show More
by Michael Ignatieff.
Chatto, 386 pp., £20, October 1998,
The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin
by György Dalos.
Murray, 250 pp., £17.95, September 2002,0 7195 5476 4 Show More
by György Dalos.
Murray, 250 pp., £17.95, September 2002,
“... a dizzying subplot, he also involved himself intimately in the quarrel between Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion over the project of a Jewish National Home, and in the attempts by both to play off the British against the Americans. And, though he showed himself able to take risks in leaking classified material that favoured the Zionist cause, he also found ... ”
