Witness to an Extreme Century

85 years old and still going strong, Robert Jay Lifton--the man who popularized the term "brainwashing"--charts his own life as it parallels the highs and lows of humanity over the past century.  From an unassuming childhood in Brooklyn, Lifton became a teller of truth to power and a beloved teacher and mentor to multiple generations of students, evolving the science of psychohistory along the way.  

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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