Bass Gary J

Gary Bass is the author of Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Knopf); 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). He is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University. The Blood Telegram was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in general nonfiction, and won the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, the Bernard Schwartz Book Prize from the Asia Society, the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Ramnath Goenka Award in India, among other prizes. 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, and The New Republic.