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Witness to an extreme century : a memoir
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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 dist...
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.
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- Creator
- Robert Jay Lifton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Free Press hardcover edition
- New York : Free Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xv, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1416590765, 9781416590767, 1416590781, 9781416590781
- OCLC
- ocn464593169
- Section 1. Discovering the world -- and its totalism -- The decision -- Method and research -- Finding a mentor -- Finding a voice -- with help from friends -- Further struggles with totalism -- section 2. "Hiroshima had disappeared" -- Getting to Hiroshima -- The visceral immersion -- Entrapment by the bomb -- Dr. Hiroshima -- section 3. Vietnam and the sixties -- Responding to slaughter -- Existential evil -- "The sixties" -- Home from the war -- section 4. Nazi doctors -- did it really happen? -- Strong enough stomach? -- Sitting down with Nazi doctors -- Historical encounters -- Annihilated by Europe -- The infernal chorus -- section 5. Next steps -- Coming home -- Full circle
Subjects
- 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.