Product DescriptionThe controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust
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Originally appearing as a series of articles in?The New Yorker Hannah Arendts authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial as well as Arendts postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influenceEichmann in Jerusalem?is as shocking as it is informativean unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century that remains hotly debated to this day.?This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Amos Elan.
For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors?? as well as up-to-date translations by award"inning translators.Amazon.com ReviewWhile living in Argentina in 1960?? Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped and smuggled to Israel where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity. The New Yorker magazine sent Hannah Arendt to cover the trial. While covering the technical aspects of the trial?? Arendt also explored the wider themes inherent in the trial?? such as the nature of justice?? the behavior of the Jewish leadership during the Nazi R?gime?? and?? most controversially?? the nature of Evil itself. Far from being evil incarnate?? as the prosecution painted Eich