The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth, Hardcover/Ken Krimstein

Contributor(s): Author: Ken Krimstein For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century . One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is best known for her landmark 1951 book on openness in political life, The Origins of Totalitarianism , which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant. She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution firsthand, survived harrowing "escapes" from country to country in Europe, and befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin and Mary McCarthy, in a world inhabited by everyone from Marc Chagall and Marlene Dietrich to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. A woman who finally had to give up her unique genius for philosophy, and her love of a very compromised man--the philosopher and Nazi-sympathizer Martin Heidegger--for what she called "love of the world." Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning, New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt is a strikingly illustrated portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose intelligence and "virulent truth telling" led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition, and whose experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times.   Review citations Library Journal Prepub Alert - pg. 45 - 04/15/2018 Publishers Weekly - 05/21/2018 Kirkus Reviews / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 83 - 07/01/2018 Kirkus Reviews / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 83 - 07/01/2018 Kirkus Reviews / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 83 - 07/01/2018 Kirkus Reviews / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 83 - 07/01/2018 Kirkus Reviews / Highly Recommended - pg. 83 - 07/01/2018 Booklist - pg. 38 - 07/01/2018 Library Journal / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 50 - 09/01/2018 Library Journal / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 50 - 09/01/2018 Library Journal / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 50 - 09/01/2018 Library Journal / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 50 - 09/01/2018 Library Journal / Highly Recommended - pg. 50 - 09/01/2018