Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

A profound and documented analysis ... Bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences Chicago TribuneHannah Arendts authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial as well as Arendts postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative - a meticulous and unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.With an introduction by Amos ElonDeals with the greatest problem of our time ... the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system Bruno Bettelheim The New Republic Review “Brilliant and disturbing.”-Stephen Spender The New York Review of Books   “Profound . . . This book is bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences.”-Chicago Tribune   “Deals with the greatest problem of our time . . . the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system.”-Bruno Bettelheim The New Republic About the Author Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover Germany in 1906 and received her doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. In 1933 she was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo after which she fled Germany for Paris where she worked on behalf of Jewish refugee children. In 1937 she was stripped of her German citizenship and in 1941 she left France for the United States. Her many books includeThe Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)The Human Condition (1958) andEichmann in Jerusalem (1963) in which she coined the famous phrase the banality of evil. She died in 1975.