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Author Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-

Title Witness to an extreme century : a memoir / Robert Jay Lifton.

Publication Info. New York : Free Press, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B LIFTON ROBERT L    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-LIFTON, R.    Claims Returned
Edition First Free Press hardcover edition.
Description xv, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Part 1. Discovering the world--and its totalism -- The decision -- Method and reach -- Finding a mentor -- Finding a voice--with help from friends -- Further struggles with totalism -- Part 2. "Hiroshima had disappeared" -- Getting to Hiroshima -- The visceral immersion -- Entrapment by the bomb -- Dr. Hiroshima -- Part 3. Vietnam and the sixties -- Responding to slaughter -- Existential evil -- "The sixties" -- Home from the war -- Part 4. Nazi doctors--did it really happen? -- Strong enough stomach? -- Sitting down with Nazi doctors -- Historical encounters -- Annihilated by Europe -- The infernal chorus -- Part 5. Next steps -- Coming home -- Full circle.
Summary A personal account by the Harvard Medical School lecturer and political activist traces his explorations into the psychological sources and consequences of some of the past half-century's most disturbing events as experienced by its victims and perpetrators.
Subject Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-
Historians -- United States -- Biography.
Psychiatrists -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
History, Modern -- 20th century.
Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
Genocide -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear warfare -- History -- 20th century.
Radicalism -- History -- 20th century.
War and society -- History -- 20th century.
Social change -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9781416590767 hardcover
1416590765 hardcover
9781416590781 trade paper
1416590781 trade paper
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