Kai Bird é autor de The Chairman: John J. McCloy and The Making of the American Establishment e The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms. Com Lawrence Lifschultz, é ainda o organizador de Hiroshima’s Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy. Editor da revista The Nation, vive em Washington com a esposa e o filho.