Gary Jonathan Bass is an American author and academic. He is a professor of politics and international relations in the

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. Bass graduated from

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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

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, '' The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide'', was a Pulitzer prize non-fiction finalist in 2014. The

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awarded the book the

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. It also won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. A former reporter for ''

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,'' Bass has also written articles for the New York Times,

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, The New Republic, and

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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.

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