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Lifton is a pioneering and wide-ranging researcher and thinker on war crimes, nuclear war, traumatic stress and the relationship between history and psychology, and the author of more than ten critically acclaimed books and hundreds of scholarly and popular articles.

In "Witness to an Extreme Century," Lifton charts the adventurous and constantly surprising course of his fascinating life journey, from a "Jewish Huck Finn childhood" in Brooklyn to his encounters with the consequences of cruelty and destructiveness led him to become a passionate social activist. "Witness to an Extreme Century" has been called "an excellent and important work," “an exquisite example of how intelligence, erudition, and depth of feeling combine to make redeeming wisdom,” “stunning,” “extraordinary” and “a call for a moral awakening by a deeply compassionate chronicler of our times.”