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Judgement at Tokyo: Book Talk With Gary Bass and Razia Iqbal

Date & Time Feb 08 2024 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location Robertson Hall
Arthur Lewis Auditorium
Speaker(s)
Gary Bass
Razia Iqbal
Audience Open to the Public

Named one of the year’s 10 best books by The Washington Post and one of the 100 notable books by The New York Times: join us as BBC journalist Razia Iqbal interviews author Gary Bass, about his new book “Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia”.

Gary Bass, William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University, 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).  Judgment at Tokyo was named one of 10 best books of the year by The Washington Post, one of the 12 essential nonfiction books of the year by The New Yorker, a best book of the year by The Economist, one of the 100 notable books of the year by The New York Times, and a New York Times Book Review editors’ choice. The Blood Telegram was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in general nonfiction and won the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Book Award, the Lionel Gelber Prize, the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz Book Award, the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations' Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, and the Ramnath Goenka Award in India. It was also a New York Times and Washington Post notable book of the year, and a best book of the year in The Economist, Financial Times, The New Republic, and Kirkus Reviews. Freedom's Battle was a New York Times notable book of the year and a Washington Post best book of the year. Bass has written articles for Ethics, International Security, Philosophy & Public Affairs, The Yale Journal of International Law, The Michigan Law Review, Daedalus, NOMOS, and other journals, as well as numerous book chapters in edited volumes. A former reporter for The Economist, Bass writes often for The New York Times, and has also written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, and other publications.