Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

Attributo da Robert F. Kennedy Memorial

84 opere 62,466 libri 1,416 recensioni 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 mostra altro 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. mostra meno
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OperaCategoriaAnno
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory di Claudio Saunt
2021
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland di Jonathan M. Metzl
2020
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment di Shane Bauer
2019
Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America di Peter Edelman
2018
The Blood of Emmett Till di Timothy B. Tyson
2018
Sfrattati. Miseria e profitti nelle città americane di Matthew Desmond
2017
March: Books 1-3 di John Lewis
2016
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story di David Maraniss
2016
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography di Miriam Pawel
2015
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America di Thomas Healy
2014
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future di Joseph E. Stiglitz
Vincitore2013
The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (The Norton Series in World Politics) di Kathryn Sikkink
2012
La grande scommessa di Michael Lewis
2011
Zeitoun di Dave Eggers
Distinguished Honor2010
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court di Amy Bach
2010
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History di Karl Jacoby
Menzione d'onore2009
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals di Jane Mayer
2009
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign di Michael K. Honey
2008
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 di Taylor Branch
Distinguished Honors2007
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast di Douglas Brinkley
2007
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America di Nick Kotz
Distinguished Honors2006
Children At War di P. W. Singer
Distinguished Honors2006
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin di John Hope Franklin
Vincitore2006
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism di Geoffrey R. Stone
Vincitore2005
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love di Jim Wooten
Vincitore2005
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America di Mamie Till-Mobley
Special Recognition2004
Punizione suprema : una riflessione sulla pena di morte di Scott Turow
2004
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America di Philip Dray
Vincitore2003
voci dall'inferno di Samantha Power
Vincitore2003
Brotherhoods of Color : Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality di Eric Arnesen
Vincitore2002
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm di Gail Lumet Buckley
Vincitore2002
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America di James Allen
Vincitore2001
Blood of the Liberals di George Packer
Vincitore2001
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City di Katherine S. Newman
Vincitore2000
Mandela: The Authorized Biography di Anthony Sampson
Vincitore2000
With Liberty For Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America di Scott Christianson
Distinguished Honor1999
The Children di David Halberstam
Distinguished Honor1999
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement di John Lewis
Vincitore1999
The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War di Samuel Hynes
Vincitore1998
Race, Crime, and the Law di Randall Kennedy
Vincitore1998
Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice di David M. Oshinsky
1997
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics di Dan T. Carter
Vincitore1996
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town di Pete Earley
Vincitore1996
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High di Melba Pattillo Beals
Runner-Up1995
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South di John Egerton
Vincitore1995
Taming the Storm di Jack Bass
Vincitore1994
In My Place di Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Menzione d'onore1993
Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass di Christopher Jencks
Menzione d'onore1993
La terra in bilico di Al Gore
Vincitore1993
When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children di Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Menzione d'onore1992
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America di Nicholas Lemann
Menzione d'onore1992
Life in the Ghetto di Anika D. Thomas
Special Recognition1992
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction di Melissa Fay Greene
Vincitore1992
The Long Haul: An Autobiography di Myles Horton
Vincitore1991
La stagione del fuoco: L'assassinio di Chico Mendes e la lotta per salvare l'Amazzonia di Andrew Revkin
Vincitore1991
The Crosswinds of Freedom di James MacGregor Burns
Menzione d'onore1990
Un posto che si chiama scuola di Tracy Kidder
Vincitore1990
Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida di Alec Wilkinson
Vincitore1990
Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage di Lisbeth Schorr
Menzione d'onore1989
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America di Jonathan Kozol
Vincitore1989
Vietnam. Una sporca bugia di Neil Sheehan
Vincitore1989
A Bright Shining Lie I di Neil Sheehan
1989
The brutality of nations di Dan Jacobs
Menzione d'onore1988
Amatissima di Toni Morrison
Vincitore1988
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage di Pauli Murray
Vincitore1988
Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement di Mary King
1988
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution di Elizabeth Becker
Menzione d'onore1987
The Political Life of Children di Robert Coles
Menzione d'onore1987
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference di David J. Garrow
Vincitore1987
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families di J. Anthony Lukas
Vincitore1986
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee di Robert J. Norrell
Vincitore1986
Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines di David Haward Bain
Menzione d'onore1985
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation di Joel Williamson
Menzione d'onore1985
A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (Galaxy Books) di Joel Williamson
Menzione d'onore1985
Weakness & Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador di Raymond Bonner
Vincitore1985
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy di Jules Tygiel
Menzione d'onore1984
Children of War di Roger Rosenblatt
Vincitore1984
The Fate of the Earth di Jonathan Schell
Menzione d'onore1983
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. di Stephen B. Oates
Vincitore1983
The Pursuit of a Dream di Janet Sharp Hermann
Vincitore1982
The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (Phoenix Book) di Anthony M. Platt
Vincitore1982
Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley di John Gaventa
Menzione d'onore1981
Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America di John Langston Gwaltney
Menzione d'onore1981
Civilities and Civil Rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom di William H. Chafe
1981
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