2018-08-22
Two decades ago, nearly one-sixth of the population was forcibly expelled. How did King Wangchuck escape any real censure? By Kai Bird MARCH 7, 2012
2018-08-22
It is time to walk away and leave the region to its own bad behavior. By Kai Bird MARCH 23, 2015
2018-08-21
As a reader, I was enthralled by this collection of Freeman Dyson’s letters. But as a biographer, I am most annoyed with him for having squirreled all these missives away.
2018-08-21
Biography is a notoriously arduous affair. Typically, the biographer spends years in the archives, sifting through documents, folder by folder, box by endless box.
2018-08-21
We Americans love conspiracies. They are like good spy stories: entertaining, intriguing and tantalizing. But historians learn to hate conspiracy stories.
2018-08-21
This is a strangely captivating book — dark and utterly frightening, despite or perhaps because of the author’s dispassionate tone.
2015-01-01
Israel: A Jewish Republic? by Kai Bird
2014-11-20
Kai Bird Op Ed in LA Times
2014-09-16
NEW YORK In the spring of 1946, J. Robert Oppenheimer was asked in a closed congressional hearing room whether three or four men couldn't smuggle units of an atomic bomb into New York and "blow up the whole city.
2010-09-30
In his essay “Mac Bundy Said He Was ‘All Wrong’†[NYR, June 10], William Pfaff claims that Gordon Goldstein’s book Lessons in Disaster:
2017-01-12
Kai Bird is the new Executive Director for CUNY Graduate Center's Leon Levy Biography Center
2015-08-27
Crown books (Random House) has signed Kai Bird to write a biography of President Jimmy Carter's White House years.
2015-06-28
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bookmark/cia-biography-good-spy-be-804825