Stephanie L. Freeman is a historian with the Office of the Historian at the United States Department of State.
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"Freeman has written a ground-breaking study of the decade 1979-89, covering issues of the disarmament movement and diplomatic attempts to reduce or outright ban nuclear weapons...[She] is to be commended for this pioneering study of disarmament in the 1980s, which simultaneously considers big-power diplomacy and small-power disarmament activism." (Choice) "As the world once again faces the threat of nuclear conflict, Stephanie L. Freeman's Dreams for a Decade is a welcome reminder of the way that activists and officials, raising their voices in support of nuclear abolition, helped to reduce that risk in the past." (M. E. Sarotte, author of Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate) "Dreams for a Decade links in novel, surprising ways the international nuclear freeze movement of the early 1980s to broader, East-West efforts to transcend the Cold War by rendering the nuclear arms race extinct. Stephanie L. Freeman deftly weaves top-down and bottom-up approaches together into a sweeping narrative of the largest peace movement of the past fifty years. A must-read for those interested in the entangled histories of nuclear weapons, antiwar movements, and the Cold War." (Jonathan R. Hunt, author of The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam)