The Orwell Prize for Political Writing Finalist 2024
PEN America Jaqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist 2025
‘Compelling and original’ Observer
‘Invigorating and insightful… An exhilarating and thoroughly humanising portrait of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century… With impressive clarity and infectious passion, she follows the currents of Arendt’s thought to a rousing conclusion.’ Financial Times
‘A splendid, ever-so-timely consideration of Arendt and her thoughts on how nations sink into tyranny.’ - Starred Kirkus Review
‘An exhilarating, brilliant and utterly original read; an iconic 20th-century figure brought to life in all her facets, splendours and complexities’
- Philippe Sands, author of EAST WEST STREET
‘In this extraordinary book, Lyndsey Stonebridge details the life and thoughts of Hannah Arendt in ways that speak to our troublesome times. We get a sense of the expansiveness of Arendt’s thought - her vulnerabilities and her complexity - with stories and intimate details that reveal Stonebridge’s love of her. Beautifully written, this is biography at its best.’ - Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin Again
‘Timely and magisterial’ - Irish Times
‘Scintillating and always bracing … gripping … presenting us with a Hannah Arendt who is all too human.’ Literary Review
‘A needful reminder of what political thinking looks like when it is humane, literate and radical all at once’ - Rowan Williams, Former Member of the House of Lords
‘An invigorating and fresh invitation into the world of Hannah Arendt’s life/work connection. Stonebridge’s accessible and thoughtful writing allows the reader to glide into a complex engagement with ease and joy.’ - Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show
‘In this brilliantly imagined and compulsively readable book, Lyndsey Stonebridge reveals how Hannah Arendt’s life and thought across the twentieth-century matter to our own time. This is a breathtaking triumph.’- Samuel Moyn, author of Humane
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