Gary J. Bass

Gary Jonathan Bass is an American author and academic. He is a professor of politics and international relations in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Bass graduated from Harvard University with a BA and PhD. Bass is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University, where he teaches politics and international relations. His book about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, was a Pulitzer prize non-fiction finalist in 2014. The Council on Foreign Relations awarded the book the Arthur Ross Book Award. It also won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.

A former reporter for The Economist, Bass has also written articles for the New York Times, The Harvard Crimson, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and The Atlantic.

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 for General Nonfiction)
• Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
• Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals, Princeton University Press, 2002.

References

1. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
2. Gary Bass
3. Archer Blood
4. Bangladesh genocide
5. Bangladesh–United States relations
6. Outline of genocide studies
7. Human rights
8. Bangladesh Liberation War
9. Hamidian massacres
10. Abdul Hamid II
11. A Shameful Act
12. Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards
13. On (Gary Glitter album)
14. Gary Barnacle discography
15. Bob Daisley
16. The Standells
17. Cundill History Prize
18. Crimea: The Last Crusade
19. List of Procol Harum members
20. Largemouth bass