The Burden of Our Time (The Origins of Totalitarianism)
London: Secker & Warburg, 1951.
First British edition. (Published in the United States as The Origins of Totalitarianism the same year.) xvi, 477 pp. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with tiny tear to crown, a little wear and a few tiny stains to edges. In a Near Fine example of the uncommon dust jacket, bright, hint of sunning to spine, a few tiny nicks along edges. An attractive copy. The German born political philosopher's first major work, cited by Le Monde and The National Review as one of the best 100 works of the 20th century. She examines Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany as exemplars of a radical new form of government: totalitarianism.
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