The Origins Of Totalitarianism

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''How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short

answer is that we, too, live in dark times'' Washington Post Hannah Arendt''s

chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet

totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of

freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political

isolation all aided the slide towards total domination. ''A non-fiction

bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four'' The New York Times ''The political theorist

who wrote about the Nazis and the ''banality of evil'' has become a surprise

bestseller'' Guardian