A "New York Times"Notable Book
A National Jewish Book Award finalist
In 1960, Adolf Eichmann took to the defendant s box in Jerusalem and insisted that he was no manager of the Holocaust, as his accusers claimed, just a smalltime bureaucrat following orders. Like countless others, Hannah Arendt covering the trials for "The New Yorker" believed him. "Eichmann Before Jerusalem "challenges this history for the first time, completely reassessing Eichmann s story and drawing upon a wealth of newly uncovered materials that reveal his great deception, as well as bringing to light shocking...