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Kai Bird
Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and journalist. With Martin J. Sherwin, he won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2006 for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tra...view moreKai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and journalist. With Martin J. Sherwin, he won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2006 for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award–winning Best Picture, Oppenheimer. Bird is Executive Director and Distinguished Lecturer at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for History and is the recipient of numerous fellowships. His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He is an elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians.view less
Books by Kai Bird
American Prometheus: THE INSPIRATION FOR 'OPPENHEIMER', WINNER OF 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Chairman: John J McCloy & The Making of the American Establishment Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDivided City: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5