{"product_id":"witness-to-an-extreme-century-paperback","title":"Witness to an Extreme Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Jay Lifton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs a preeminent intellectual and a political activist, Robert Jay Lifton helped found the field of psychohistory.\u003c\/b\u003e In this moving memoir, he will describe a life of hopeful witness, of looking into the abyss of twentieth-century tragedy in order to see beyond it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Jay Lifton is a man of conscience who, as a psychiatrist immersed in history, has devoted his life to probing some of the darkest moments of the last half of the twentieth century. In \u003ci\u003eWitness to an Extreme Century\u003c\/i\u003e, Lifton offers a memoir that, while peering into history's wounds, comes away seeing well beyond the bleak surface to something eternally hopeful about the human spirit. His life's work has added enormously to our understanding of human behavior. He has hurled himself into the most appalling historical episodes of the mid-twentieth century, including those involving victims of Chinese mind control, survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Vietnam veterans, and genocidal Nazi doctors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lifton has led one of the most intellectually vital lives of the late twentieth century and beyond. He writes not only about his witness to the consequences of cruelty and destructiveness but also to individual and collective resilience, to the human capacity to recover and re-create versions of oneself and the world. \u003ci\u003eWitness to an Extreme Century\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to anyone who is concerned about our times, the human potential for evil, and our capacity to overcome it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert 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 \u003ci\u003eDeath in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e (which won a National Book Award); \u003ci\u003eThe Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e (awarded a Los Angeles Times book prize); \u003ci\u003eHome from the War: Learning from Vietnam Veterans\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist of a National Book Award and reissued in 2005 with a new preface on the war in Iraq); \u003ci\u003eDestroying the World to Save It\u003c\/i\u003e (about the fanatical Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo); \u003ci\u003eSuperpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCrimes of War: Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e, which was co-edited with Irene Gendzier and Richard Falk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 456\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47689037676803,"sku":"9781416590781","price":154.83,"currency_code":"PLN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/TEluYjM4eXY5STZCMGJLNkdiMGJHQT09.webp?v=1769561714","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-pl\/products\/witness-to-an-extreme-century-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}