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Author Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-

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

Imprint New York : Free Press, 2011.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  303.485 L626w 2011    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Description xv, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents 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.
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-
Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- (OCoLC)fst00036138
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.
Genocide. (OCoLC)fst00940208
Historians. (OCoLC)fst00957686
History, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00958367
Military history, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01021239
Nuclear warfare. (OCoLC)fst01040920
Political activists. (OCoLC)fst01069192
Psychiatrists. (OCoLC)fst01081142
Radicalism. (OCoLC)fst01087015
Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
War and society. (OCoLC)fst01170447
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Historians -- United States -- Biography.
Psychiatrists -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
World history -- 20th century.
Military history.
Genocide -- History.
Nuclear warfare -- History.
Radicalism -- History.
War -- Social aspects -- History.
Social change -- History.
Nuclear warfare -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Autobiographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 1416590765 (hardcover)
9781416590767 (hardcover)
1416590781 (trade paper)
9781416590781 (trade paper)
1416597182 (ebook)
9781416597186 (ebook)
Standard No. 40019561864

 
    
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