Gary J. Bass

Gary Jonathan Bass is an American author and academic.^[1][2] He is a professor of politics and international relations in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.^[3][4]

Bass graduated from Harvard University^[4] with a BA and PhD. Bass is a professor at Princeton University, where he teaches politics and international relations.^[5] His book about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, The Blood Telegram, was a Pulitzer prize non-fiction finalist in 2014.^[6][7][8] The Council on Foreign Relations awarded the book the Arthur Ross Book Award.^[9] It also won the Lionel Gelber Prize^[10] and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.^[7]

A former reporter for The Economist,^[11] Bass has also written articles for the New York Times,^[12][13][14] The Harvard Crimson,^[15] Foreign Policy,^[16] The New Yorker,^[17] The Boston Globe,^[18] The New Republic,^[19][20] and The Atlantic.^[21]

Bibliography

• Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia, Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
• The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize)^[22][23]
• Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.^[24]
• Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals, Princeton University Press, 2002.^[24]

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