America's Book Club - Kai Bird
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Kai Bird is a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and journalist. His "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer," was the inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award–winning Best Picture, "Oppenheimer." He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for History and is the recipient of numerous fellowships. His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. Bird is Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He is also an elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians. https://www.c-span.org/americas-book-club/guest/33/kai-bird Download the FREE C-SPAN Now App. https://www.c-span.org/c-spanNow/ Discover the C-SPAN Video Library at https://www.c-span.org/quickguide/ Explore C-SPAN's Free Educational Resources at https://www.c-span.org/classroom/ C-
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