Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

Vergeben durch Robert F. Kennedy Memorial

84 Werke 61,293 Bücher 1,407 Rezensionen 4.0
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 mehr anzeigen 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. weniger anzeigen
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WerkKategorieJahr
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory von Claudio Saunt
2021
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland von Jonathan M. Metzl
2020
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment von Shane Bauer
2019
Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America von Peter Edelman
2018
The Blood of Emmett Till von Timothy B. Tyson
2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City von Matthew Desmond
2017
March: Books 1-3 von John Lewis
2016
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story von David Maraniss
2016
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography von Miriam Pawel
2015
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America von Thomas Healy
2014
Der Preis der Ungleichheit: Wie die Spaltung der Gesellschaft unsere Zukunft bedroht von Joseph E. Stiglitz
Gewinner2013
The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (The Norton Series in World Politics) von Kathryn Sikkink
2012
The Big Short: Wie eine Handvoll Trader die Welt verzockte von Michael Lewis
2011
Zeitoun von Dave Eggers
Distinguished Honor2010
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court von Amy Bach
2010
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History von Karl Jacoby
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung2009
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals von Jane Mayer
2009
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign von Michael K. Honey
2008
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 von Taylor Branch
Distinguished Honors2007
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast von Douglas Brinkley
2007
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America von Nick Kotz
Distinguished Honors2006
Children At War von P. W. Singer
Distinguished Honors2006
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin von John Hope Franklin
Gewinner2006
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism von Geoffrey R. Stone
Gewinner2005
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love von Jim Wooten
Gewinner2005
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America von Mamie Till-Mobley
Special Recognition2004
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty von Scott Turow
2004
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America von Philip Dray
Gewinner2003
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide von Samantha Power
Gewinner2003
Brotherhoods of Color : Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality von Eric Arnesen
Gewinner2002
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm von Gail Lumet Buckley
Gewinner2002
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America von James Allen
Gewinner2001
Blood of the Liberals von George Packer
Gewinner2001
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City von Katherine S. Newman
Gewinner2000
Nelson Mandela von Anthony Sampson
Gewinner2000
With Liberty For Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America von Scott Christianson
Distinguished Honor1999
The Children von David Halberstam
Distinguished Honor1999
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement von John Lewis
Gewinner1999
The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War von Samuel Hynes
Gewinner1998
Race, Crime, and the Law von Randall Kennedy
Gewinner1998
Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice von David M. Oshinsky
1997
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics von Dan T. Carter
Gewinner1996
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town von Pete Earley
Gewinner1996
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High von Melba Pattillo Beals
Runner-Up1995
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South von John Egerton
Gewinner1995
Taming the Storm von Jack Bass
Gewinner1994
In My Place von Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1993
Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass von Christopher Jencks
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1993
Wege zum Gleichgewicht von Al Gore
Gewinner1993
When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children von Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1992
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America von Nicholas Lemann
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1992
Life in the Ghetto von Anika D. Thomas
Special Recognition1992
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction von Melissa Fay Greene
Gewinner1992
The Long Haul: An Autobiography von Myles Horton
Gewinner1991
The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest von Andrew Revkin
Gewinner1991
The Crosswinds of Freedom von James MacGregor Burns
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1990
Among Schoolchildren von Tracy Kidder
Gewinner1990
Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida von Alec Wilkinson
Gewinner1990
Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage von Lisbeth Schorr
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1989
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America von Jonathan Kozol
Gewinner1989
Die große Lüge von Neil Sheehan
Gewinner1989
A Bright Shining Lie I von Neil Sheehan
1989
The brutality of nations von Dan Jacobs
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1988
Menschenkind von Toni Morrison
Gewinner1988
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage von Pauli Murray
Gewinner1988
Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement von Mary King
1988
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution von Elizabeth Becker
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1987
The Political Life of Children von Robert Coles
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1987
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference von David J. Garrow
Gewinner1987
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families von J. Anthony Lukas
Gewinner1986
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee von Robert J. Norrell
Gewinner1986
Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines von David Haward Bain
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1985
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation von Joel Williamson
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1985
A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (Galaxy Books) von Joel Williamson
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1985
Weakness & Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador von Raymond Bonner
Gewinner1985
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy von Jules Tygiel
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1984
Children of War von Roger Rosenblatt
Gewinner1984
Das Schicksal der Erde. Gefahr und Folgen eines Atomkrieges. von Jonathan Schell
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1983
Martin Luther King: Kämpfer für Gewaltlosigkeit. Biografie von Stephen B. Oates
Gewinner1983
The Pursuit of a Dream von Janet Sharp Hermann
Gewinner1982
The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (Phoenix Book) von Anthony M. Platt
Gewinner1982
Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley von John Gaventa
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1981
Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America von John Langston Gwaltney
Ehrenwerte Erwähnung1981
Civilities and Civil Rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom von William H. Chafe
1981
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