My life in 8 words: "An American expatriate writer from Jerusalem to Kathmandu"
Kai Bird's Books
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Crossing Mandelbaum GatePulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.Read More -
The Color of Truth"Grey is the color of truth." So observed Mac Bundy in defending America's intervention in Vietnam. Kai Bird brilliantly captures this ambiguity in...Read More
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The Empire, February 12, 2013
...s “Tempest” What’s the last great book you read? American Prometheus by Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird What’s one thing you’re a fan of that people might not expect? WNYC! What’s your...
Times Higher Education Supplement, December 6, 2012
...out that the Pulitzer prize-winning 2005 biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, while a "monumental piece of scholarship", is light on the physics that its subject cared about so...
Guardian.co.uk, November 29, 2012
...The first was Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb and victim of America's cold-war witch hunts. Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin's vast, Pulitzer-winning biography American Prometheus appeared only a few years ago and suggested there was little left...
Telegraph, November 12, 2012
...Bomb: A Life'. 2 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird (2005). 3 In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist by Silvan Schweber (1986...
Consortium News, January 11, 2013
...Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy. Codenamed Project Alpha, the lobbying was personally paid for by David Rockefeller. (Kai Bird, The Chairman, p. 644) Rockefeller even paid a writer $40, 000 to pen a book defending the Shah against his critics. ...
Cordova Times, December 21, 2012
...Washington, D.C., Jerusalem, Beirut, Dhahran, Cairo, Bombay, New Delhi, Jeddah and Riyadh. Their son, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Kai Bird, later wrote about their life abroad in his memoir, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs...
Times Higher Education Supplement, December 6, 2012
...out that the Pulitzer prize-winning 2005 biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, while a "monumental piece of scholarship", is light on the physics that its subject cared about so...
Observer, November 29, 2012
...The first was Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb and victim of America's cold-war witch hunts. Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin's vast, Pulitzer-winning biography American Prometheus appeared only a few years ago and suggested there was little left...
Guardian.co.uk, November 29, 2012
...The first was Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb and victim of America's cold-war witch hunts. Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin's vast, Pulitzer-winning biography American Prometheus appeared only a few years ago and suggested there was little left...
Telegraph, November 12, 2012
...Bomb: A Life'. 2 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird (2005). 3 In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist by Silvan Schweber (1986...
Telegraph, November 12, 2012
...Bomb: A Life'. 2 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird (2005). 3 In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist by Silvan Schweber (1986...
