# The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth - Hardcover

by **Ken Krimstein** (Author)

**Winner of the** **Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir**  
**Best Graphic Novels of the Year--_Forbes_**  
**Jewish Book Award Finalist**  
**Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize**

**For** _Persepolis_ **and** _Logicomix_ **fans, a** _New Yorker_ **cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt,** **the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century****.**

One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is best known for her landmark 1951 book on openness in political life, _The Origins of Totalitarianism_, which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant.

She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution firsthand, survived harrowing escapes from country to country in Europe, and befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin and Mary McCarthy, in a world inhabited by everyone from Marc Chagall and Marlene Dietrich to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. A woman who finally had to give up her unique genius for philosophy, and her love of a very compromised man--the philosopher and Nazi-sympathizer Martin Heidegger--for what she called love of the world.

Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning, _New Yorker_ cartoonist Ken Krimstein's _The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt_ is a strikingly illustrated portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose intelligence and virulent truth telling led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition, and whose experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times.

### Author Biography

**Ken Krimstein** has published cartoons in the _New Yorker_, _Punch_, the _Wall Street Journal_, and more. He has written for _New York Observer_'s New Yorker's Diary and has published pieces on websites including _McSweeney's Internet Tendency_, _Yankee Pot Roast_, and _Mr. Beller's Neighborhood_. He is the author _of Kvetch as Kvetch Can_, and teaches at De Paul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

**Number of Pages:** 240

**Dimensions:** 1 x 8.9 x 6.9 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 25, 2018

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