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Isaac & Isaiah, by David Caute - review

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

Isaac & Isaiah David Caute

Yale, pp.335, £25

The scene is the common room of All Souls College, Oxford, in the first week of March 1963. It is the idle half-hour after lunch when fellows slump into armchairs and gaze out of the window at the sparrows in the Fellows’ Garden. David Caute, a young first-class mind in his mid-twenties, is buttonholed by the revered figure of Sir Isaiah Berlin.

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