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 impressive and unsettling report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was first published in 1963 as a series of articles in The New Yorker. This edition includes material that emerged after the trial, as well as Arendt's afterword, which directly addresses the controversy surrounding her report. A significant journalistic triumph from an intellectual figure of singular influence, this classic depiction of the banality of evil is as shocking as it is informative – an unflinching look at one of the most troubling issues of the twentieth century.

Addresses the greatest problem of our time: the problem of the individual within a modern totalitarian system, Bruno Bettelheim.