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 books include The Chairman: John J. McCloy, the Making of the American Establishment (1992) and The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy & William Bundy, Brothers in Arms (1998). Bird's many honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A contributing editor of The Nation, he lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, with his wife and son.
"A compelling hybrid of memoir and history... kaleidoscopic and
captivating."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A wonderfully intimate account, which reminds us that the path to
peace passes through the gate of personal narrative. We need not
agree with Bird's analysis to be moved by his story and allow it to
help us walk through that gate." --Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, author
of You Don't Have To Be Wrong for Me To Be Right
"An extraordinarily rich and pleasurable memoir, a worthy addition
to the literature of Middle Eastern ex-pats that ranges from
Charles M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta to Thomas Friedman's
From Beirut to Jerusalem . . . I simply could not put it
down."--Jonathan Kirsch, The Jewish Journal
"Bird's acute and engaging memoir is a mournful recollection of a
time when the single issue of Arab and Israeli, Muslim and Jew, was
not the monotonously dominant theme that it has since become.... He
is adroit, modest, ironic, and amusing... Bird puts me somewhat in
mind of Edward Said's memoir, Out of Place."--Christopher Hitchens,
The Atlantic
"I was entranced by this book from the first page to the last, and
can recommend it with enthusiasm."--Sir Martin Gilbert, official
biographer of Winston Churchill and author of Israel: A History and
Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century
"Illuminating . . . poignant . . . A fascinating book about a
crucial period in the Middle East."--Mike O'Connor, Washington
Post
"Kai Bird has done the impossible, and written a wholly original
book challenging both the conventional and unconventional wisdom
about Israel, the Jews and the Middle East." --Victor S. Navasky,
author of Naming Names
"The book rips along like a spy novel . . . [Bird] has succeeded in
explaining the perspectives of two peoples who view the Middle East
conflict through different lenses."--Neil MacFarquhar, New York
Times Book Review
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