Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

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, 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (2), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (2), 2009 (2), 2008 (1), 2007 (2), 2006 (3), 2005 (2), 2004 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (2), 2000 (2), 1999 (3), 1998 (2), 1997 (1), 1996 (2), 1995 (2), 1994 (1), 1993 (3), 1992 (4), 1991 (2), 1990 (3), 1989 (4), 1988 (4), 1987 (3), 1986 (2), 1985 (4), 1984 (2), 1983 (2), 1982 (2), 1981 (3)
TeosKategoriaVuosi
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (tekijä: Claudio Saunt)
2021
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (tekijä: Jonathan M. Metzl)
2020
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (tekijä: Shane Bauer)
2019
Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America (tekijä: Peter Edelman)
2018
The Blood of Emmett Till (tekijä: Timothy B. Tyson)
2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (tekijä: Matthew Desmond)
2017
March: Books 1-3 (tekijä: John Lewis)
2016
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story (tekijä: David Maraniss)
2016
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography (tekijä: Miriam Pawel)
2015
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America (tekijä: Thomas Healy)
2014
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (tekijä: Joseph E. Stiglitz)
Winner2013
The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (The Norton Series in World Politics) (tekijä: Kathryn Sikkink)
2012
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (tekijä: Michael Lewis)
2011
Zeitoun (tekijä: Dave Eggers)
Distinguished Honor2010
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court (tekijä: Amy Bach)
2010
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History (tekijä: Karl Jacoby)
Honorable Mention2009
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (tekijä: Jane Mayer)
2009
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (tekijä: Michael K. Honey)
2008
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (tekijä: Taylor Branch)
Distinguished Honors2007
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (tekijä: Douglas Brinkley)
2007
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America (tekijä: Nick Kotz)
Distinguished Honors2006
Children At War (tekijä: P. W. Singer)
Distinguished Honors2006
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (tekijä: John Hope Franklin)
Winner2006
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (tekijä: Geoffrey R. Stone)
Winner2005
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love (tekijä: Jim Wooten)
Winner2005
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America (tekijä: Mamie Till-Mobley)
Special Recognition2004
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty (tekijä: Scott Turow)
2004
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (tekijä: Philip Dray)
Winner2003
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (tekijä: Samantha Power)
Winner2003
Brotherhoods of Color : Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (tekijä: Eric Arnesen)
Winner2002
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm (tekijä: Gail Lumet Buckley)
Winner2002
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (tekijä: James Allen)
Winner2001
Blood of the Liberals (tekijä: George Packer)
Winner2001
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (tekijä: Katherine S. Newman)
Winner2000
Mandela: The Authorized Biography (tekijä: Anthony Sampson)
Winner2000
With Liberty For Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America (tekijä: Scott Christianson)
Distinguished Honor1999
The Children (tekijä: David Halberstam)
Distinguished Honor1999
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (tekijä: John Lewis)
Winner1999
The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War (tekijä: Samuel Hynes)
Winner1998
Race, Crime, and the Law (tekijä: Randall Kennedy)
Winner1998
Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (tekijä: David M. Oshinsky)
1997
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (tekijä: Dan T. Carter)
Winner1996
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town (tekijä: Pete Earley)
Winner1996
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (tekijä: Melba Pattillo Beals)
Runner-Up1995
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (tekijä: John Egerton)
Winner1995
Taming the Storm (tekijä: Jack Bass)
Winner1994
In My Place (tekijä: Charlayne Hunter-Gault)
Honorable Mention1993
Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass (tekijä: Christopher Jencks)
Honorable Mention1993
Maapallo vaakakupissa (tekijä: Al Gore)
Winner1993
When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children (tekijä: Sylvia Ann Hewlett)
Honorable Mention1992
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (tekijä: Nicholas Lemann)
Honorable Mention1992
Life in the Ghetto (tekijä: Anika D. Thomas)
Special Recognition1992
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction (tekijä: Melissa Fay Greene)
Winner1992
The Long Haul: An Autobiography (tekijä: Myles Horton)
Winner1991
The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest (tekijä: Andrew Revkin)
Winner1991
The Crosswinds of Freedom (tekijä: James MacGregor Burns)
Honorable Mention1990
Among Schoolchildren (tekijä: Tracy Kidder)
Winner1990
Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida (tekijä: Alec Wilkinson)
Winner1990
Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage (tekijä: Lisbeth Schorr)
Honorable Mention1989
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America (tekijä: Jonathan Kozol)
Winner1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (tekijä: Neil Sheehan)
Winner1989
A Bright Shining Lie I (tekijä: Neil Sheehan)
1989
The brutality of nations (tekijä: Dan Jacobs)
Honorable Mention1988
Minun kansani, minun rakkaani (tekijä: Toni Morrison)
Winner1988
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage (tekijä: Pauli Murray)
Winner1988
Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (tekijä: Mary King)
1988
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution (tekijä: Elizabeth Becker)
Honorable Mention1987
The Political Life of Children (tekijä: Robert Coles)
Honorable Mention1987
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (tekijä: David J. Garrow)
Winner1987
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (tekijä: J. Anthony Lukas)
Winner1986
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee (tekijä: Robert J. Norrell)
Winner1986
Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines (tekijä: David Haward Bain)
Honorable Mention1985
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (tekijä: Joel Williamson)
Honorable Mention1985
A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (Galaxy Books) (tekijä: Joel Williamson)
Honorable Mention1985
Weakness & Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador (tekijä: Raymond Bonner)
Winner1985
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (tekijä: Jules Tygiel)
Honorable Mention1984
Children of War (tekijä: Roger Rosenblatt)
Winner1984
Maapallon kohtalo (tekijä: Jonathan Schell)
Honorable Mention1983
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (tekijä: Stephen B. Oates)
Winner1983
The Pursuit of a Dream (tekijä: Janet Sharp Hermann)
Winner1982
The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (Phoenix Book) (tekijä: Anthony M. Platt)
Winner1982
Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (tekijä: John Gaventa)
Honorable Mention1981
Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America (tekijä: John Langston Gwaltney)
Honorable Mention1981
Civilities and Civil Rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom (tekijä: William H. Chafe)
1981
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