{"product_id":"014026857x-isaiah_berlin_a_life","title":"Isaiah Berlin: A Life","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003eIsaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe son of a Riga timber merchant and the first Jew elected to a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, he was a historian of Russian intelligentsia, biographer of Marx, scholar of the Romantic movement, and defender of the liberal idea of freedom against Soviet tyranny. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this definitive biography, a remarkable ten-year collaboration between biographer and subject, Michael Ignatieff charts the emergence of a unique liberal temperament—serene, comic, secular, and unafraid—while examining its influence on Berlin's vision of liberalism, which stressed the often tragic nature of political and moral choice. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA masterful work, illuminating, and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eIsaiah Berlin: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to take its place among the great modern biographies. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"Michael Ignatieff has written a brilliant, tender, and insightful biography of this complex, important, and influential thinker.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographies \u0026amp; Memoirs\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Penguin Canada","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":47981984940222,"sku":"014026857X-4","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/51DMNNVJR1L.jpg?v=1783432815","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/014026857x-isaiah_berlin_a_life","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}