EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM: A REPORT ON THE BANALITY OF EVIL PB – HANNAH ARENDT

" Brilliant and disturbing Stephen Spender, New York Review of Books The classic work on the banality of evil , and a journalistic masterpiece Hannah Arendt s stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker 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. Deals with the greatest problem of our time … the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system Bruno Bettelheim"