Robert Jay Lifton discusses his career, our times and his acclaimed new autobiography, "Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir," with Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor at The Nation and executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
This audio is an excerpt from a public conversation held at the Columbia Jouranlism School in September , 2011, co-sponsored by The Nation: "Conversation: Robert Jay Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century."
Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.
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Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, has written about various destructive historical events, and is the author of a recent memoir, Witness to an Extreme Century.
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