Eichmann in Jerusalem

<b>A touchstone in the 20th century's thinking about morality and politics</b> <b>Quite astonishing</b> . . . her indictment of Eichmann reached beyond the man to the historical world in which true thinking was vanishing <b>Deals with the greatest problem of our time</b> . . . the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system <p><b>'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender <i>New York Review of Books</i></b><br><br><b>The classic work on 'the banality of evil' and a journalistic masterpiece</b><br><br>Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the <i>New Yorker</i> in 1963. This edition includes material that came to light after the trial as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence this classic portrayal of the banality of evil is as shocking as it is informative - an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling issues of the twentieth century.<br><br>'Deals with the greatest problem of our time ... the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system' Bruno Bettelheim</p> <p><b>'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender <i>New York Review of Books</i></b><br><br><b>The classic work on 'the banality of evil' and a journalistic masterpiece</b><br><br>Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the <i>New Yorker</i> in 1963. This edition includes material that came to light after the trial as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence this classic portrayal of the banality of evil is as shocking as it is informative - an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling issues of the twentieth century.<br><br>'Deals with the greatest problem of our time ... the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system' Bruno Bettelheim</p>