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Kai Bird

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born

Eugene, Oregon, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.kaibird.com/

genre

Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Politics

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Kai Bird is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist, best known for his biographies of political figures.

Bird was born in 1951. His father was a U.S. Foreign Service officer, and he spent his childhood in Jerusalem, Beirut, Dhahran, Cairo and Bombay. He finished high school in 1969 at Kodaikanal International School in Tamil Nadu, South India. He received his BA from Carleton College in 1973 and a M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1975. Bird now lives in Kathmandu, Nepal with his wife, Susan Goldmark, country director of the World Bank, and their 17-year-old son, Joshua.

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Books by Kai Bird

Average rating: 4.19 · 1,689 ratings · 289 reviews · 5 distinct works

	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin 4.20 avg rating — 1,579 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The COLOR OF TRUTH: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1992	My rating:

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April 2012, Kai Bird
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? KB: An American expatriate writer from Jerusalem to Kathmandu SS: What is your motto or maxim? KB: "To the Confusion of our Enemies!" (Robert Oppenheimer's favorite toast.) Get more on ..." ...More

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