u003cpu003eu003cbu003eFor u003ciu003ePersepolisu003c/iu003e and u003ciu003eLogicomixu003c/iu003e fans, a u003ciu003eNew Yorkeru003c/iu003e cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, u003c/bu003eu003cbu003ethe most prominent philosopher of the twentieth centuryu003c/bu003eu003cbu003e.u003c/bu003eu003c/pu003eu003cpu003eOne 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,u003ciu003e The Origins of Totalitarianismu003c/iu003e, which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003e 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."u003c/pu003eu003cpu003e Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning,u003ciu003e New Yorker u003c/iu003ecartoonist Ken Krimstein'su003ciu003e The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt u003c/iu003eis 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.u003c/pu003e
