A 2013 Elke Schmitter article about this book's author claims that this book was the product of"successful deception" and a "performance," and that the Sassen interviews are a more accuraterecord of the subject's attitudes.
A 2013 Elke Schmitter article about this book's author claims that this book was the product of"successful deception" and a "performance," and that the Sassen interviews are a more accuraterecord of the subject's attitudes. This book discusses the same event as a 2011 monograph byDeborah Lipstadt, which uses a recently unearthed memoir to argue that this book missed thesubject's ideological commitment. Bettina Stangneth wrote a 2013 prequel to this book whichdiscusses an open letter written to Konrad (*) Adenaeur proposing that the central event of this booktake place in West Germany. This book discusses testimony which asserts "at heart, I am a very sensitiveman" and "I feared to live a leaderless and difficult life in which I would receive no directives fromanybody." This book presents evidence that the subject is a "joiner" and user of "stock phrases," and waswritten on a reporting assignment for The New Yorker following the capture of its subject in Argentina bythe Mossad. For 10 points, name this book which concluded that the "banality of evil" was exemplified bythe only person ever executed in Israel, and was written by Hannah Arendt.
A 2013 Elke Schmitter article about this book's author claims that this book was the product of"successful deception" and a "performance," and that the Sassen interviews are a more accuraterecord of the subject's attitudes.
 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil