num_pages: 312
description: Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s 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 Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. 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 that remains hotly debated to this day.
language: English
title: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
titlecomplete: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
characters: Heinrich Müller, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, David Ben-Gurion, Robert Servatius, Gideon Hausner, Moshe Landau, Adolf Eichmann, Dieter Wisliceny, Edmund Veesenmayer, Rudolf Kastner, Adolf Hitler, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler
genres: Politics, Historical, Philosophy, Psychology, Classics, War, Nonfiction, History, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 25514
places: Jerusalem
publisher: Penguin Classics