Prominent author: The Climate Swerve was reviewed in the Washington Post and excerpted in the New York Times. Lifton has been a contributor to the New York Times for over fifty years. He has appeared on many NPR shows, including Fresh Air. He has appeared in many TV and feature documentaries, including having been interviewed by Stephen Spielberg’s team for a Discovery Channel show on the Japanese suicide cult Aum Shinrikyo and for a film by Errol Morris. His definition of cults is used by the hugely popular podcast CULTS in the opening of their show.
Credentials: Lifton is one of the world’s leading luminaries in the field of psychohistory, the combination of psychiatry and history. He taught and practiced at Yale, Harvard, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He has been a prolific voice on Trump’s psychological unsuitability to be president.
Endorsements: We have blurb commitments from James Carroll, Judy Herman, Rebecca Solnit, and Bessel Van Der Kolk, Dr. Michael Osterholm, and Neal Ascherson.
Relevant topic: Much to everyone’s chagrin, covid-19 does not seem to be “going away.” Lifton’s book is well positioned to teach readers how to cope and live with our new reality.