A Virtual Evening with MARTIN J. SHERWIN & KAI BIRD

A Virtual Evening with  MARTIN J. SHERWIN & KAI BIRD

Books & Books and Miami Book Fair present…

A Virtual Evening with 
MARTIN J. SHERWIN
& KAI BIRD

discussing
Gambling with Armageddon:
Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis

(Knopf, $35)

Monday, October 26, 7pm EST
LIVE via Crowdcast
More Info + Free Registration

“In this riveting book, Sherwin provides a fresh and thrilling account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and also puts it into historical perspective. With great new material, he shows the effect of nuclear arms on global affairs, starting with the decision to bomb Hiroshima. It is a fascinating work of history that is very relevant to today’s politics.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Leonardo da Vinci

“Intricately detailed, vividly written, and nearly Tolstoyan in scope, Sherwin’s account reveals just how close the Cold War came to boiling over. History buffs will be enthralled.” —Publishers Weekly 

MARTIN J. SHERWIN is the author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, which won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, as well as the American History Book Prize, and the coauthor, with Kai Bird, of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2006. He and his wife live in Washington, D.C., and in Aspen, CO.

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. He is the author of the forthcoming presidential biography, The Outlier: The Righteous Presidency of Jimmy Carter.

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