Full name: Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima

Author: Robert J. Lifton Year: 1967 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, History, Non Fiction, Psychology Culture: Japan Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon

In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion--specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand--and be motivated to avoid--nuclear war. This compassionate treatment is a significant contribution to the atomic age. Similar books: Adventures in the Orgasmatron by Christopher Turner Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson White Mughals by William Dalrymple A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki The Promised Land by Nicholas Lemann The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin To Be a Slave by Julius Lester Local People by John Dittmer They Say in Harlan County by Alessandro Portelli Origins of the New South by C. Vann Woodward Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter An American Insurrection by William Doyle