ROBERT JAY LIFTON’S “WITNESS TO AN EXTREME CENTURY” BOOK PUBLISHED
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 16, 2011 – 11:11 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Robert Jay Lifton has been a witness, in the
broadest, most profound, meaning of that word to many of the most
traumatic events or movements of the past century: Nazism, Hiroshima,
the Vietnam war and veterans, political and religious cults, torture
and brainwashing, nuclear weapons and first-strike, the Iraq war,
and so much more.
He is also the author of publications on the Armenian Genocide and
Turkey’s attempts to deny this crime against humanity perpetrated by
the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.
He’s written dozens of books but has not written a memoir, but now
his book, Witness to an Extreme Century, has just been published, The
Nation reports, describing the book as “an excellent and important
work, and remarkably easy to read despite the often grim subject
matter.”
Witness is also a kind of love story, as Lifton chronicles the
adventures he shared with his late wife Betty Jean Lifton.
Lifton remains fully engaged in current issues. He recently wrote for
the IHT and New York Times on Hiroshima and Fukushima, and he has a
new op-ed set to be published this week.