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“This book is brilliant. Itâs written by Samantha Rose Hill, who must know as much as anyone about Hannah Arendt. Sheâs dived into Arendtâs surviving papers, notebooks, and even poetry, spending many hours in the archive. And whatâs so great about this as a biography is that Hill has done something that biographers rarely doâsheâs been highly selective in what sheâs included. As a result, we donât get the feeling of being overwhelmed by details of an individual life but rather get to understand what really mattered.” Read more...
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