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WE ARE FREE TO CHANGE THE WORLD - LYNDSEY STONE...

A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the
life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt  one of the twentieth century’s foremost
opponents of totalitarianism    Don't miss Lyndsey Stonebridge in the PBS American Masters
documentary Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny.    “We are free to change the world and to start
something new in it.”—Hannah Arendt    FINALIST FOR THE PEN JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR
BIOGRAPHY • FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING   The violent unease of today’s
world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny  occupation  disenchantment 
post-truth politics  conspiracy theories  racism  mass migration: She lived through them all. 
Born in the first decade of the last century  she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for
herself in America  where she became one of its most influential—and controversial—public
intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror  exile and love  and above all  about freedom.
Questioning—thinking—was her first defense against tyranny. She advocated a politics of action
and plurality  courage and  when necessary  disobedience.   We Are Free to Change the World is
a book about the Arendt we need for the twenty-first century. It tells us how and why Arendt
came to think the way she did  and how to think when our own politics goes off the rails. Both
a guide to Arendt’s life and work  and its dialogue with our troubled present  We Are Free to
Change the World is an urgent call for us to think  as Hannah Arendt did—unflinchingly 
lovingly  and defiantly—through our own unpredictable times.

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