The Genocidal Mentality (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Jay Lifton
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture, Language or languages, Racism, Psychology or psychologists, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Corruption, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Concentration camps, Genocide, Holocaust
Readers of The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat meet Theodore Taylor, a physicist interviewed by Robert Jay Lifton in December, 1987. Mentored by the likes of Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, Taylor so intently dedicated himself to the development of nuclear arms that he professed feeling “more at home in the laboratory than at home.” Yet that statement was not Taylor’s last, which explains why Lifton and his coauthor, Eric Markusen, conclude their disturbing yet guardedly optimistic book with a different revelation from this man, who...
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