This lecture is a brilliant encapsulation of Arendt's widely influential arguments on revolution, and why the American Revolutionunlike all those preceding itwas uniquely able to install political freedom.
"The Freedom to be Free" was first published in Thinking Without a Banister, a varied collection of Arendt's essays, lectures, reviews, interviews, speeches, and editorialswhich, taken together, manifest the relentless activity of her mind and character and contain within them the articulations of wide and sophisticated range of her political thought.