'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender New York Review of BooksThe classic work on 'the
banality of evil' and a journalistic masterpieceHannah 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
