Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardWinner

Given by Robert F. Kennedy Memorial

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Each year the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial celebrates the book which most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes, his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for näytä lisää honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity. näytä vähemmän
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Kaikki, 2013 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (2), 2000 (2), 1999 (1), 1998 (2), 1996 (2), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (2), 1990 (2), 1989 (2), 1988 (2), 1987 (1), 1986 (2), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (2)
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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (tekijä: Joseph E. Stiglitz)
2013
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (tekijä: John Hope Franklin)
2006
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (tekijä: Geoffrey R. Stone)
2005
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love (tekijä: Jim Wooten)
2005
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (tekijä: Philip Dray)
2003
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (tekijä: Samantha Power)
2003
Brotherhoods of Color : Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (tekijä: Eric Arnesen)
2002
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm (tekijä: Gail Lumet Buckley)
2002
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (tekijä: James Allen)
2001
Blood of the Liberals (tekijä: George Packer)
2001
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (tekijä: Katherine S. Newman)
2000
Mandela: The Authorized Biography (tekijä: Anthony Sampson)
2000
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (tekijä: John Lewis)
1999
The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War (tekijä: Samuel Hynes)
1998
Race, Crime, and the Law (tekijä: Randall Kennedy)
1998
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (tekijä: Dan T. Carter)
1996
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town (tekijä: Pete Earley)
1996
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (tekijä: John Egerton)
1995
Taming the Storm (tekijä: Jack Bass)
1994
Maapallo vaakakupissa (tekijä: Al Gore)
1993
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction (tekijä: Melissa Fay Greene)
1992
The Long Haul: An Autobiography (tekijä: Myles Horton)
1991
The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest (tekijä: Andrew Revkin)
1991
Among Schoolchildren (tekijä: Tracy Kidder)
1990
Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida (tekijä: Alec Wilkinson)
1990
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America (tekijä: Jonathan Kozol)
1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (tekijä: Neil Sheehan)
1989
Minun kansani, minun rakkaani (tekijä: Toni Morrison)
1988
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage (tekijä: Pauli Murray)
1988
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (tekijä: David J. Garrow)
1987
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (tekijä: J. Anthony Lukas)
1986
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee (tekijä: Robert J. Norrell)
1986
Weakness & Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador (tekijä: Raymond Bonner)
1985
Children of War (tekijä: Roger Rosenblatt)
1984
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (tekijä: Stephen B. Oates)
1983
The Pursuit of a Dream (tekijä: Janet Sharp Hermann)
1982
The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (Phoenix Book) (tekijä: Anthony M. Platt)
1982

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