Conscience in Extremis: An Essay on Morality in the Making of History

by John D. Harris

The lives and crises of Norman Morrison and Robert McNamara are offered as exemplars of the moral conflict and moral idealism of the Sixties. Morrison, as a celebrated martyr to the war, and McNamara, as a vilified perpetrator of the war, are by these facts or legends alone remarkable to history. They are symbolic for the tortured memory as that war resides within the American cultural conscience; how they show this war for a unique misery of moral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 172009988X
• ISBN13: 9781720099888
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"