Background
Kai Bird was born on September 2, 1951, in Eugene, Oregon, United States. His father was a United States Foreign Service officer, and Kai spent his childhood in Jerusalem, Beirut, Dhahran, Cairo, and Mumbai.
Kai Bird received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1973.
Kai Bird received his M.A. in journalism from Northwestern University in 1975.
("Grey is the color of truth." So observed Mac Bundy in de...)
"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 influential policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Truth-McGeorge-William-Brothers-ebook/dp/B01M7TNX1U/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the...)
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer-ebook/dp/B000XUBEYS/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD’S fascinating memoir of hi...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Mandelbaum-Gate-Israelis-1956-1978-ebook/dp/B003GMFDBA/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bir...)
The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Spy-Life-Death-Robert-ebook/dp/B00GVZN320/?tag=2022091-20
2014
Kai Bird was born on September 2, 1951, in Eugene, Oregon, United States. His father was a United States Foreign Service officer, and Kai spent his childhood in Jerusalem, Beirut, Dhahran, Cairo, and Mumbai.
Kai finished high school in 1969 at Kodaikanal International School in Tamil Nadu, South India. He received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1973 and a M.A. in journalism from Northwestern University in 1975.
After graduation from Carleton, Bird received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which enables students to do a year of independent study outside the United States. He used the fellowship to do a photojournalism project in Yemen. He also was an associate editor of The Nation magazine from 1978 to 1982 and then a Nation columnist.
In January 2017 Bird was appointed Executive Director and Distinguished Lecturer of CUNY Graduate Center's Leon Levy Center for Biography.
Kai's most recent book, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, was a New York Times best-seller. He chronicled his childhood in the Middle East in his memoir, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis - which was a Finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy, McGeorge Bundy, and William Bundy. His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, Nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the CIA. He is currently writing a biography of President Jimmy Carter's White House years, under contract to Crown books.
(The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bir...)
2014(PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD’S fascinating memoir of hi...)
2010("Grey is the color of truth." So observed Mac Bundy in de...)
1998(J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the...)
2007Kai Bird married Susan Gloria Goldmark on June 7, 1975. They have one son Joshua Kodai Goldmark.