News Updates

• Leon Levy Center for Biography

  2017-01-12

  Kai Bird is the new Executive Director for CUNY Graduate Center's Leon Levy Biography Center

  
  

• NY Times announces Crown book deal

  2015-08-27

  Crown books (Random House) has signed Kai Bird to write a biography of President Jimmy Carter's White House years.

  
  

• Hollywood options The Good Spy

  2015-06-28

  http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bookmark/cia-biography-good-spy-be-804825

  
  

• Kai Bird Op Ed in NY Times on the Iran deal

  2015-05-14

  The Ghosts That Haunt an Iran Accord by Kai Bird New York Times (International Edition)- April 28, 2015

  
  

• New York Times Op Ed on Dec 25, 2014

  2015-01-01

  Israel: A Jewish Republic?

  
  

• Apple IBooks Selects The Good Spy as one of top 10 best Biographies for 2014

  2014-12-12

  Top Ten Biographies for 2014

  
  

• The Good Spy is in the top 50 books published in 2014

  2014-11-21

  Washington Post selects The Good Spy as one of the top 50 books published in 2014

  
  

• Kai Bird interview by Shelf Awareness editor Ron Hogan

  2014-09-16

  Kai Bird is co-author, with Martin J. Sherwin, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.

  
  

• Shelf Awareness review of The Good Spy

  2014-09-16

  On April 18, 1983, a truck loaded with explosives drove onto the compound of the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, crashing into the lobby and detonating a ton of explosives.

  
  

• Advance comments on The Good Spy

  2014-09-16

  Kai Bird has produced a compelling and complex narrative that must be read on many levels – including as a detailed account of the immense influence that a truly good man can have on an agency as cynical as the CIA