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Atrocities of the Mind : Essays on Violence and Politics in the American Century.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macdonald, Dwight.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- An essential collection of Dwight Macdonald's prophetic essays on politics, art, and violence in twentieth-century America.What does extreme violence do to human values?Does the concept of collective guilt make sense in assessing responsibility for genocide?.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword: "Where, Our Mistake? " / Andrew Bacevich
- Introduction: The Last of the Free Individuals / John Summers
- The Responsibility of Peoples
- On the Psychology of Killing
- My Favorite General
- Horrors-Ours and Theirs
- The Bomb
- Too Big
- Why Destroy Draft Cards?
- Gandhi
- The Pacifist Dilemma
- Homage to Twelve Judges
- I Choose the West
- Dorothy Day
- Massacre from the Air
- Politics Past
- America! America!
- A Good American
- Massachusetts vs. Mailer
- Hiroshima, Mon Amour
- Mein Kampf, the Movie
- Our Invisible Poor
- A Day at the White House
- To the Texas Society to Abolish Capital Punishment
- Cosa Nostra
- A General View of the Ruins
- To the Collector of Internal Revenue
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-84798-5
- OCLC:
- 1583750203
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