Members of the AMSE Foundation are welcomed to meet and spend a bit of time with our Energy and Elements Gala Keynote speaker on April 22nd from 1-2pm at the American Museum of Science and Energy. This informal gathering is in support of your generous donation and countless support of the work the ASME Foundation puts forth into the community. For more information check out our website.
Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and journalist. He is the Executive Director and Distinguished Lecturer of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. His most recent book, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter, was published in 2021. The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, was a New York Times best-seller. He chronicled his childhood in the Middle East in his memoir, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis. He is the author of biographies of John J. McCloy, McGeorge Bundy, and William Bundy. 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). 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 the recipient of numerous fellowships. He is an elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians.
