About this title: A BRILLIANT AND DISTURBING STUDY OF THE CHARACTER AND TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN - STEPHEN SPENDER, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. THE TASK SHE SETS FOR HERSELF FAR TRANCENDS THE CRIMES OF ONE MAN SINCE IT DEALS WITH THE GREATEST PROBLEM OF OUR TIME...THE PROBLEM OF THE HUMAN BEING WITHIN A MODERN TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM...OUR BEST PROTECTION AGAINST ...
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Description: Good. Viking, TPB, 1964, 13th PB printing. Good reading copy solid binding, wear on cover and edges, name on last page but no other markings or highlighting on text, read more
Edition: Revised and enlarged Edition; Seventeenth Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140044508ISBN:0140044507
Description: Good+ with no DJ. 0140044507. Book is Good + (plus). Pages 97/98 top corner missing about 1 inch effecting last 2-3 words on top three sentences of page. Clean and unmarked text. Tight and sturdy binding. Appears book never read. Very light bumping to cover corners, spine ends and edges with slight wear and few chips in some areas. Back cover bottom corner bend with light surface crease. Very few and very small cover surface dents in few spots. Very slight surface shelf wear to cover.; Trade PB ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140044508ISBN:0140044507
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Covers show some edge and corner wear. Front cover shows chip where old sticker removed. Clean and unmarked text. Solid binding. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Rev. /Enlarged
Binding: Seventeenth
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140044508ISBN:0140044507
Description: fair to good. 312, wraps, bibliography, index, yellow highlighting on a few pages, front cover creased, some wear to cover edges. Some soiling and wrinkling to a few pages, price sticker on rear cover. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the book which was first published in 1963. Beyond several dozen technical corrections and additions, there is a new Postscript, which deals with the controversy that followed the original publication. There is also additional material on the German anti ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2006-09-26
ISBN-13:9780143039884ISBN:0143039881
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780143039884. read more
Edition: Sixth Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Top rhs corner of front cover clipped. Faded on back cover. Rubbed & 2 small bumps on front cover. Otherwise clean intern-no inscrip or marks. pp312 inc index. A disturbing study of character and trial of Adolf Eichmann. Selected as one of the 50 notable books of 1963 by American Library Association. Bookseller Inventory # 01978. read more
Description: Good; Collectible. 1963 Viking hard cover-1st edition-no dust jacket-stamp inside cover and on title page-owner label envelope and due date slip inside cover-some wear to cover-some staining to page edge-otherwise binding strong contents fine-enjoy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, Viking Press
Date Published: 1963
Description: First edition. An important look at this Nazi. A very near fine copy in a close to near fine jacket that has some very minor edge. A very nice copy. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
"Simply magnificent. Arendt uses the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem as a platform for examining the evil behind the Holocaust and the level of responsibility held by each faction of the conflict. She is absolutely uncompromising in her examination of the responsible parties, giving nobody, not even the Jews themselves, a free pass. Her discussions of the situations in Denmark and Bulgaria are particularly revealing, and even inspiring. The skill Arendt possesses in ignoring all of the trivialities of a situation in order to penetrate to the deeper and profoundly relevant truths is astounding. Her portrait of Eichmann is shocking, not because she shows that his crimes were due to his inherent monstrosity but rather because she higlights the incredible thoughtlessness that allowed him to shirk any conceivable pangs of conscience."
"An excellent piece of reportage, Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" is a thorough account of a trial which attracted huge international attention.
Professor Arendt handles her subject deftly and with a light, dispassionate touch which I frequently found stylistically reminiscent of H.L. Mencken's journalism. A good deal of thoroughly unpleasant material is dealt with in the course of the trial, and Arendt's writing style neither trivialises nor sensationalises any of this.
The philosophical niceties of Eichmann's guilt are thoroughly explored, as is the uncomfortable fact of the illegality of his abduction by Shin Bet agents.
Eichmann's craving for importance in the world and for recognition in his own right appear, eventually, to be the main factors in his downfall, and indeed may have led to the lack of resistance whcich he offered to his captors. Such insights into the man's character are built, for the most part, chronologically, as the trial unfolds, which gives the work the necessary pace to avoid becoming bogged down in procedural detail.
Eichmann's sentence was never any more in doubt than that of the thousands he dispatched to the camps, proud of his efficiency in so doing. Indeed, it's hard to argue that it could have been otherwise, and at times even the defendant seemed keen for the gallows. Still, Arendt pays tribute to the professionalism of the trial judges, not only for their impartiality in judgement, but also for their resistance to the attempted politicisation of the proceedings by David Ben-Gurion and his administration.
An excellent, pithy account of a fascinating trial."
"I finally read this, almost 50 years after publication, and, in many ways, it is everything you need to know about how such great evil could have happened as it did. It's a tough read. I had to read other, lighter material in between and put it down a lot. I can understand why the book was controversial. Basically, what we learn from this is that: resistance is NOT futile. Those who did resist and fight back (like the Bulgarians; who knew?) saved at least half of their Jews and sometimes more; those who didn't, saved 5% at most. The great evil is that almost everyone, including the Jews themselves, accepted the insanity of the Judenrein laws as fact and went along. So much for working within the system for change. Inevitably it corrupts or, in this case, kills. No wonder it was controversial in 1962. It was so soon after the Holocaust and could be read as blaming the victims in a big way, which it wasn't. And, of course, she pretty well proves that Eichmann wasn't guilty in the way the court found; he was a small, emblematic fish in a pool where Hitler called the shots and he went along. He was guilty of not feeling, of shutting off his moral sense.......what's scary about this book is it's so easy to see how the Holocaust, or fascism, could happen here while we are all at the mall."
"Arendt's controversial book details the trial against Adolf Eichmann, who was involved in implementing the Final Solution during World War II. The most interesting aspect of this book, however, is Arendt's reflection on the trial itself, and what it revealed about the state of international law, and our own ability to judge a crime of such magnitude. Arendt discusses the pros and cons of the way Eichmann was brought to trial (kidnapped in Buenos Aires, where he was not trying very hard to hide out), the place the trial took place (Jerusalem vs. an international court of justice), and the content of the trial itself (judging one man vs. exposing the atrocities committed against Jews and other groups). Her arguments present clearly and fairly the divisive issues of the trial and, in the Postcript, she addresses some of the concerns and controversy that surged from the publication of this book."
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