Mar 10, 2022
Gary Bass is a
professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton
University, and the author of The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger,
and a Forgotten Genocide (Knopf); Freedom's Battle: The Origins of
Humanitarian Intervention (Knopf); and Stay the Hand of Vengeance:
The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals (Princeton University Press).
For the Blood Telegram, he is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in general
nonfiction, and he won the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council
on Foreign Relations, the Bernard Schwartz Book Award from the Asia
Society, the Lionel Gelber Prize, the Cundill Prize in Historical
Literature, the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Ramnath Goenka
Award in India. It was a New York Times and Washington Post notable
book of the year, and a best book of the year in The Economist,
Financial Times, The New Republic, and Kirkus Reviews. In today’s
episode, Gary talks about his book.
Key points
include:
0:46: Overview of Blood Telegram
04:51: The backstory of Archer Blood
15:19: Why Nixon and Kissenger did not intervene
24:14: How Gary found his area of specialization