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&#8220A gripping look into the psychology behind racialized violence and how it's carried out, MY WAR CRIMINAL is a powerful and timely book. Jessica Stern draws a chilling portrait of Radovan Karadzic, giving us an eye-opening new context not only for the Bosnian War, but also of how fear can be harnessed and diverted to violent political ends. -- Senator Chris Coons

&#8220A gripping look into the psychology behind racialized violence and how it's carried out, MY WAR CRIMINAL is a powerful and timely book. Jessica Stern draws a chilling portrait of Radovan Karadzic, giving us an eye-opening new context not only for the Bosnian War, but also of how fear can be harnessed and diverted to violent political ends. -- Senator Chris Coons This book is a remarkable blend of biography, history, and psychiatry-only Jessica Stern could have written it. -- Howard Gardner, author of Leading Minds Based on extraordinary access to a notorious Serbian leader, Jessica Stern has produced a remarkable study that both Illuminates the psychology of an individual war criminal and incisively analyzes the dynamic behind ethnic hatred and violence. Timely and compelling. -- Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security

&#8220A gripping look into the psychology behind racialized violence and how it's carried out, MY WAR CRIMINAL is a powerful and timely book. Jessica Stern draws a chilling portrait of Radovan Karadzic, giving us an eye-opening new context not only for the Bosnian War, but also of how fear can be harnessed and diverted to violent political ends. -- Senator Chris Coons This book is a remarkable blend of biography, history, and psychiatry-only Jessica Stern could have written it. -- Howard Gardner, author of Leading Minds Based on extraordinary access to a notorious Serbian leader, Jessica Stern has produced a remarkable study that both Illuminates the psychology of an individual war criminal and incisively analyzes the dynamic behind ethnic hatred and violence. Timely and compelling. -- Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security Eloquent and revelatory. -- <em>Publishers Weekly</em> [A] scrupulously researched work by a skilled interviewer...the author provides a subtle, powerful illustration of terror that resonates today, especially regarding the resurgent white supremacist movement. The deep, extensive footnotes and detailed timeline attest to Stern's meticulous research. An utterly compelling chronicle from a master scholar and clear writer. -- <em>Kirkus Reviews</em> My War Criminal is a riveting account full of edge-of-your-seat moments as Dr. Jessica Stern explores the boundaries of good and evil through hours of interviews with convicted mass murderer Radovan Karadzic. Complex emotions are unleashed on both sides as the interviewer circles a wily subject skilled at charm, obfuscation, misdirection, and intimidation-and Dr. Stern lays all of this out with extraordinary candor. Must reading for anyone interested in how a narcissistic leader can merge popular grievances and history to produce human tragedy on a massive scale. -- John McLaughlin, Former Deputy Director and Acting Director of the CIA

&#8220A gripping look into the psychology behind racialized violence and how it's carried out, MY WAR CRIMINAL is a powerful and timely book. Jessica Stern draws a chilling portrait of Radovan Karadzic, giving us an eye-opening new context not only for the Bosnian War, but also of how fear can be harnessed and diverted to violent political ends. - Senator Chris Coons This book is a remarkable blend of biography, history, and psychiatry-only Jessica Stern could have written it. - Howard Gardner, author of Leading Minds Based on extraordinary access to a notorious Serbian leader, Jessica Stern has produced a remarkable study that both Illuminates the psychology of an individual war criminal and incisively analyzes the dynamic behind ethnic hatred and violence. Timely and compelling. - Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security Eloquent and revelatory. - Publishers Weekly [A] scrupulously researched work by a skilled interviewer...the author provides a subtle, powerful illustration of terror that resonates today, especially regarding the resurgent white supremacist movement. The deep, extensive footnotes and detailed timeline attest to Stern's meticulous research. An utterly compelling chronicle from a master scholar and clear writer. - Kirkus Reviews My War Criminal is a riveting account full of edge-of-your-seat moments as Dr. Jessica Stern explores the boundaries of good and evil through hours of interviews with convicted mass murderer Radovan Karadzic. Complex emotions are unleashed on both sides as the interviewer circles a wily subject skilled at charm, obfuscation, misdirection, and intimidation-and Dr. Stern lays all of this out with extraordinary candor. Must reading for anyone interested in how a narcissistic leader can merge popular grievances and history to produce human tragedy on a massive scale. - John McLaughlin, Former Deputy Director and Acting Director of the CIA

&#8220A gripping look into the psychology behind racialized violence and how it's carried out, MY WAR CRIMINAL is a powerful and timely book. Jessica Stern draws a chilling portrait of Radovan Karadzic, giving us an eye-opening new context not only for the Bosnian War, but also of how fear can be harnessed and diverted to violent political ends. -- Senator Chris Coons This book is a remarkable blend of biography, history, and psychiatry-only Jessica Stern could have written it. -- Howard Gardner, author of Leading Minds Based on extraordinary access to a notorious Serbian leader, Jessica Stern has produced a remarkable study that both Illuminates the psychology of an individual war criminal and incisively analyzes the dynamic behind ethnic hatred and violence. Timely and compelling. -- Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security Eloquent and revelatory. -- Publishers Weekly

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Jessica Stern, the foremost U.S. expert on terrorism, is a lecturer at Harvard University''s Kennedy School of Government and a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 1994 to 1995, she served as director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council; from 1998 to 1999, she was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and from 1995 to 1996, she was a National Fellow at Stanford University''s Hoover Institution. She lives in Cambridge, MA.

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