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Kai Bird

Kai Bird

Kai Bird is the co-author with Martin J. Sherwin of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005), which also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. His other... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. "To the Confusion of our Enemies!" (Robert Oppenheimer's favorite toast.)
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 By: Kai Bird
This edition: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publication date: April 20, 2010
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD’S fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. Weeks...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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The Color of Truth
The Color of Truth McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms By: Kai Bird
This edition: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publication date: June 21, 2000
"Grey is the color of truth." So observed Mac Bundy in defending America's intervention in Vietnam. Kai Bird brilliantly captures this ambiguity in his revelatory look at Bundy and his brother William, two of the most...