by Kai Bird
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KAI BIRD is the coauthor 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 and the Duff Cooper Prize for History in London. He wrote The Chairman: John J. McCloy; The Making of the American Establishment (1992), and The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy; Brothers in Arms (1998). He is also coeditor with Lawrence Lifschultz of Hiroshima’s Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (1998). He is also the author of a memoir, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956–1978 (2010), which was a Finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award and a Finalist for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Mr. Bird is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; the Alicia Patterson Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Thomas J. Watson Foundation; the German Marshall Fund; the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study Center, Bellagio, Italy; and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. An elected fellow of the Society of American Historians and a contributing editor of The Nation, he lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.
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