«You'd like to think that when Truman was deciding to use nuclear weapons and thinking about how many people would be killed and whether the decision would make the war even worse,
some special voice of conscience was informing that decision,» Greene says.
After reading, reviewing, and writing on Hannah Arendt, I have come to think
of her, fairly or otherwise, as a
special voice, one
of many» they range from Thomas Mann to Karl Jaspers to Marlene Dietrich» who came through the fires
of hell called Nazi Germany with their
consciences intact.