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Kai Bird
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History & Biography Pavilion
12:30-1 pm
Book Signing
2-3 pm
Kai Bird is the author of The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment and The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms. He co-edited with Lawrence Lifschultz, Hiroshima’s Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy. His most recent book, co-written with Martin J. Sherwin, is American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Random House, 2005), which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography and the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. A contributing editor for The Nation, Mr. Bird lives in Washington, D.C.