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Hannah Arendt
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Hannah Arendt
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Hannah Arendt

German-American, 1906 - 1975
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Hannah Arendt was a German-American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Her works cover a broad range of topics, but she is best known for those dealing with the nature of power and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism.
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