Kai Bird

Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer. His latest book is American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, co-authored with his wife, Susan Goldmark and published by Scribner/Simon & Schuster on September 1, 2026. Kai's last book was The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter, published in 2021. He has also written a memoir about the Middle East entitl...