Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

ARENDT, Hannah.

Item Number: 135239

New York: The Viking Press, 1963.

First edition of this classic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ben Feder, Inc. Photograph of Arendt by Alfred Bernheim.

Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.