The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
Last month I briefly mentioned Samantha Power's "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, a hefty, meticulous work of journalism I've been reading during my commute on Valley Metro. I'm now supplementing it (at home) with a related but ultimately quite different book. The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein is a graphic biography of the "largely unsung and often misunderstood" German-American philosopher. Born and raised in a secular Jewish family, Arendt fled Germany in 1933 after being briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo. As for the other two escapes? I guess I'll need to find out.