Number of pages: 624 pages
Against the Grain is a collection of Berlin's essays on the history of ideas, collected by Hardy and then devoted to each chapter, preceded by a preface by Mark Lilla and followed by an appendix of letters to Jean Flood, Alan J. B. Taylor, Sidney Hook, and Joseph Alsop, which sparked a lively discussion of Niccolò Machiavelli as a pluralist, a letter to Omar El-Haliq on the Zionism of Moshe Hess and his position on the Palestinian Arabs, revealing Berlin's views on the matter, his letter to Sidney Morgenbeisser on free choice, and a letter to him from David Cecil, which includes a warm judgment on Berlin's account of Benjamin Disraeli and was widely shared, all of which shed further light on the essays under study.
