Review
Praise for the earlier edition:



Book Description
This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book’s 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject’s life and achievement.

Praise for the earlier edition:

“Both a personal and an intellectual biography . . . It represents biography at its best.”--Peter Berger, front page, The New York Times Book Review

“A story of surprising drama . . . . At last, we can see Arendt whole.”--Jim Miller, Newsweek

“Indispensable to anyone interested in the life, the thought, or . . . the example of Hannah Arendt.”--Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

“An adventure story that moves from pre-Nazi Germany to fame in the United States, and . . . a study of the influences that shaped a sharp political awareness.”--Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch

• Winner of the 1983 Alfred Harcourt Prize Award for Biography and Memoirs
• Winner of the Fourth Annual Kenneth B. Smilen/Present Tense Literary Award for Biography
• Winner of the 1983 Yale Governor’s Prize
• Nominated for the 1983 National Jewish Book Award in History




About the Author
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, who now practices as a psychoanalyst in New York City, is on the faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new Preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book's 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject's life and achievement.

FROM THE CRITICS

Julia Epstein - Philadelphia Enquirer