Witness To An Extreme Century - A Memoir

A personal account by the Harvard Medical School lecturer, political activist and co-founder of psychohistory shares his insights into some of the past half-century's most disturbing events as experienced by its victims and perpetrators. By the National Book Award-winning author of Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism .

About the author

Robert Jay Lifton is a former Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology at The City University of New York. The overall themes of his work have been the holocaust and transformation. His books include Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (which won a National Book Award); The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (awarded a Los Angeles Times book prize); Home from the War: Learning from Vietnam Veterans (finalist of a National Book Award and reissued in 2005 with a new preface on the war in Iraq); Destroying the World to Save It (about the fanatical Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo); Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World; and Crimes of War: Iraq, which was co-edited with Irene Gendzier and Richard Falk.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Jay Lifton
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2014
• EAN: 9781416590781
• ISBN: 978-1-4165-9078-1
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries