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On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication

By Hannah Arendt, David Bromwich (Introduction)
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By Hannah Arendt, David Bromwich (Introduction)
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More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich

“No one,” Hannah Arendt observed, “has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue.” But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function?

Fifty years ago, the century’s greatest political theorist tur...

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