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Media track record: Liftons books have received major review attention and he has been interviewed by the likes of Bill Moyers, Terry Gross and Amy Goodman.

Platform: This book began as an op-ed essay in the New York Times, a publication he has been a regular contributor for many years, contributing to both the magazine and the opinion pages.

Credentials: Lifton is a National Book Award winning historian who has pioneered the field of psycho-historywhich merged psychiatric and historic methodologies. As a psychiatrist who has practiced in the US Navy, Harvard Medical School and CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, his work has been an inspiration to Martin Amis and Norman Mailer.

Speaking: Lifton speaks regularly at public events, a recent example being his lecture at the Pen World Voices festival where spoke of the Armenian Genocide.

Opportunities: The new American president believes that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by China. A prophetic voice like Liftons could crack open a space for real debate about this.

Sales record: The Nazi Doctors is a very strong backlist title for Basic Books, who are launching a new edition in 2017.

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Longlisted for the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing

"Well worth the read. . . . [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars."
The Washington Post

From "one of the worlds foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate change

Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents us with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task ever required of humankind," what he describes as the task of mobilizing our imaginative resources toward climate sanity.

Thanks to the power of corporate-funded climate denialists and the fact that "with its slower, incremental sequence, [climate change] lends itself less to the apocalyptic drama," a large swathe of humanity has numbed themselves to the reality of climate change. Yet Lifton draws a message of hope from the Paris climate meeting of 2015 where representatives of virtually all nations joined in the recognition that we are a single species in deep trouble.

Here, Lifton suggests in this lucid and moving book that recalls Rachel Carson and Jonathan Schell, was evidence of how we might call upon the human mind"our greatest evolutionary asset"to translate a growing species awarenessor "climate swerve"into action to sustain our habitat and civilization.

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