Isaiah Berlin Author, Translator & Editor

Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) taught for most of his life at Oxford University, UK, where he was successively professor of social and political theory and founding president of Wolfson College, UK. Thereafter he served as president of the British Academy, UK. Henry Hardy is a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK. He is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees and has edited a number of other collections of Berlin's essays. Strobe Talbott is president of the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. USA. He is the author of several books on Russia and the Soviet Union .