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Witness to an extreme century : a memoir / by Robert Jay Lifton.
LIBRA CT275.L4343 A3 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-.
- Lifton, Robert Jay.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- Social change.
- History.
- War and society.
- Nuclear warfare.
- Genocide.
- United States.
- Psychiatrists--United States--Biography.
- Psychiatrists.
- Political activists--United States--Biography.
- Political activists.
- History, Modern--20th century.
- History, Modern.
- Military history, Modern--20th century.
- Military history, Modern.
- Genocide--History--20th century.
- Nuclear warfare--History--20th century.
- Radicalism--History--20th century.
- Radicalism.
- War and society--History--20th century.
- Social change--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2011.
- 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.
- Contents:
- section 1. 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
- The infernal chorus
- section 5. Next steps
- Coming home
- Full circle.
- ISBN:
- 9781416590767
- 1416590765
- 9781416590781
- 1416590781
- 9781416597186
- 1416597182
- OCLC:
- 464593169
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