Jessica Stern is a Lecturer in Public Policy and a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 1994-95, she served as Director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council, where she was responsible for national security policy toward Russia and the former Soviet states and for policies to reduce the threat of nuclear smuggling and terrorism. In 1998-99, she was the superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and in 1995-96, she was a national Fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She also worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Stern received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a master of science degree from MIT, and a doctorate in public policy from Harvard. She is the author of the New York Times Notable Book, Terror in the Name of God and The Ultimate Terrorists, as well as numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
"In this skillfully wrought, powerful study, a terrorism expert,
national security adviser, and lecturer at Harvard, returns to a
definitive episode of terror in her own early life and traces its
grim, damaging ramifications... Stern's work is a strong,
clear-eyed, elucidating study of the profound reverberations of
trauma."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Wonderfully compassionate, absorbing reading for
anyone."--Booklist (starred review)
"[An] eloquent, vital book. . .brilliant [and]
indispensable."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"[Denial is a] powerfully constructed memoir ... [an]
incandescently honest book..."--Washington Post
"[Stern's rapist] whose chaotic life and whose own probable
victimization Stern reconstructs, caused her lifelong anguish. She
doesn't simply tell us so but shows us in shattered, artfully
repetitive narration."--Boston Globe
"An extraordinary memoir conveys Stern's process of denial,
dissociation, and healing in her dawning realization of intolerable
truths."--Providence Journal
"DENIAL [is] a profound human document... it is hot to the touch in
ways that are both memorable and disturbing."--New York Times
"Most moving is the author's contemplation of denial itself, and
its effect of re-victimizing the victim... She successfully
unearths difficult emotional terrain without sinking into utter
subjectivity and maintains an orderly progression without becoming
clinical. A disturbing, captivating memoir."--Kirkus Reviews
"[Stern's] commitment to introspection makes for a book that is
memorably searing..."--New York Times Book Review
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