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Should you’ve learn one work of Han­nah Arendt’s, it’s prob­a­bly Eich­mann in Jerusalem, her account of the tri­al of the epony­mous Nazi offi­cial — and the supply of her much-quot­ed phrase “the banal­i­ty of evil.” That ebook got here out in 1963, at which era Arendt nonetheless had a dozen professional­duc­tive years left. In actual…