Oppenheimer: The American Prometheus | Kai Bird in conversation with Jonathan Freedland

Oppenheimer: The American Prometheus | Kai Bird in conversation with Jonathan Freedland | Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024
Presented by Rajasthan Patrika
Pulitzer Prize winning writer Kai Bird speaks to historian and writer Jonathan Freedland on his writing life and literary journey. Co-authored with the late Martin J. Sherwin Bird famously wrote, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which acted as inspiration for the Chirstopher Nolan’s film, Oppenheimer. He is also known for his writings on United States-Middle East political relations, and his biographies of political figures such as Jimmy Carter.
Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2006 for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin). American Prometheus is the basis for Christopher Nolan’s recent film, Oppenheimer. Bird is the Executive Director and Distinguished Lecturer of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. His book, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, was a New York Times best-seller and his most recent work is The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. His memoir is called Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis and he also authored multiple biographies. His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, Nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the CIA. He won the National Books Critics Circle Award, the Duff Cooper Prize for History and is an elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians.
Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series, The Long View. He is a past winner of an Orwell Prize for journalism and the author of 12 books, the latest being The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, which became a New York Times bestseller.
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