The Man in the High Castle vs The Origins of Totalitarianism: Which Should You Read?

The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick · 1962 ★★★★☆ 3.5 274 pages · ≈ 5 h 04 m · Moderate

“For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail.”

The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set in 1962, the novel takes place fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, and concerns…

The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt · 1951 ★★★★☆ 4.3 550 pages · ≈ 10 h 11 m · Challenging

“acteristic of these times, when Jewish individuals and the first small wealthy Jewish communities were more powerful than at any time in the nineteenth century, was the frankness with which their privileged status and their right to it was discussed, and the careful testimony of the authorities to the importance of their services to the state. There was not the slightest doubt or ambiguity about t”

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and…