Witness to an Extreme Century A Memoir

by Lifton, Robert Jay

• ISBN13: 9781416590767
• ISBN10: 1416590765
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-14
• Publisher: Free Press

Summary

A psycho-historian and political activist delves deeply into some of the darkest chapters of world history in the last half of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Discovering the World-and its Totalism
The Decision	p. 3
Method and Reach	p. 25
Finding a Mentor	p. 46
Finding a Voice-with Help from Friends	p. 67
Further Struggles with Totalism	p. 79
ôHiroshima Had Disappearedö
Getting to Hiroshima	p. 89
The Visceral Immersion	p. 100
Entrapment by the Bomb	p. 125
	p. 140
Vietnam and the Sixties
Responding to Slaughter	p. 167
Existential Evil	p. 179
ôThe Sixtiesö	p. 192
Home from the War	p. 224
Nazi Doctors-Did It Really Happen?
Strong Enough Stomach?	p. 237
Sitting Down with Nazi Doctors	p. 261
Historical Encounters	p. 285
Annihilated by Europe	p. 318
The Infernal Chorus	p. 330
Next Steps
Coming Home	p. 339
Full Circle	p. 364
Epilogue	p. 408
Acknowledgments	p. 411
Index	p. 413
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