An edition of Witness to an extreme century
(2011)
Witness to an extreme century
a memoir
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
by Robert Jay Lifton
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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 disturbing events as experienced by its victims and perpetrators.
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Modern Military history, Radicalism, Modern History, Social change, Nuclear warfare, Genocide, Psychiatrists, Historians, War and society, History, Political activists, Biography, Military history, World history, War, Historians, biography, Psychiatrists, biography, History, modern, 20th centuryPeople
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Witness to an extreme century: a memoir
2011, Free Press
in English
- 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
1416590765 9781416590767
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Table of 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.
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