Brief Encounters: Notes from a Philosopher’s Diary

✍ Scribed by Anthony Kenny

Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 224
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Cardinals, directors, dissidents, dons, judges, novelists, philosophers, prime ministers, scientists, world statesmen. . . Throughout his long and distinguished career, Sir Anthony Kenny has encountered some of the most notable and influential leaders of the post-war world. In these brilliantly vivid vignettes Kenny offers telling and often unexpected insights into the achievements, flaws and foibles of sixty public figures--past and present--each of whom has contributed in decisive ways to British political, spiritual, and cultural heritage.

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