Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

Given by Robert F. Kennedy Memorial

84 oeuvres 61,293 Livres 1,407 critiques 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 afficher plus 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. afficher moins
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ŒuvreCatégorieAnnée
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory par Claudio Saunt
2021
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland par Jonathan M. Metzl
2020
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment par Shane Bauer
2019
Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America par Peter Edelman
2018
The Blood of Emmett Till par Timothy B. Tyson
2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City par Matthew Desmond
2017
March: Books 1-3 par John Lewis
2016
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story par David Maraniss
2016
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography par Miriam Pawel
2015
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America par Thomas Healy
2014
Le prix de l'inégalité par Joseph E. Stiglitz
Gagnant2013
The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (The Norton Series in World Politics) par Kathryn Sikkink
2012
Le casse du siècle par Michael Lewis
2011
Zeitoun par Dave Eggers
Distinguished Honor2010
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court par Amy Bach
2010
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History par Karl Jacoby
Mention honorable2009
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals par Jane Mayer
2009
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign par Michael K. Honey
2008
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 par Taylor Branch
Distinguished Honors2007
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast par Douglas Brinkley
2007
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America par Nick Kotz
Distinguished Honors2006
Children At War par P. W. Singer
Distinguished Honors2006
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin par John Hope Franklin
Gagnant2006
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism par Geoffrey R. Stone
Gagnant2005
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love par Jim Wooten
Gagnant2005
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America par Mamie Till-Mobley
Special Recognition2004
Ultime recours par Scott Turow
2004
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America par Philip Dray
Gagnant2003
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide par Samantha Power
Gagnant2003
Brotherhoods of Color : Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality par Eric Arnesen
Gagnant2002
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm par Gail Lumet Buckley
Gagnant2002
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America par James Allen
Gagnant2001
Blood of the Liberals par George Packer
Gagnant2001
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City par Katherine S. Newman
Gagnant2000
Mandela: The Authorized Biography par Anthony Sampson
Gagnant2000
With Liberty For Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America par Scott Christianson
Distinguished Honor1999
The Children par David Halberstam
Distinguished Honor1999
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement par John Lewis
Gagnant1999
The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War par Samuel Hynes
Gagnant1998
Race, Crime, and the Law par Randall Kennedy
Gagnant1998
Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice par David M. Oshinsky
1997
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics par Dan T. Carter
Gagnant1996
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town par Pete Earley
Gagnant1996
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High par Melba Pattillo Beals
Runner-Up1995
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South par John Egerton
Gagnant1995
Taming the Storm par Jack Bass
Gagnant1994
In My Place par Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Mention honorable1993
Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass par Christopher Jencks
Mention honorable1993
Urgence planète terre. L'esprit humain face à la crise écologique par Al Gore
Gagnant1993
When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children par Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Mention honorable1992
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America par Nicholas Lemann
Mention honorable1992
Life in the Ghetto par Anika D. Thomas
Special Recognition1992
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction par Melissa Fay Greene
Gagnant1992
The Long Haul: An Autobiography par Myles Horton
Gagnant1991
The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest par Andrew Revkin
Gagnant1991
The Crosswinds of Freedom par James MacGregor Burns
Mention honorable1990
Among Schoolchildren par Tracy Kidder
Gagnant1990
Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida par Alec Wilkinson
Gagnant1990
Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage par Lisbeth Schorr
Mention honorable1989
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America par Jonathan Kozol
Gagnant1989
L'innocence perdue. Un Américain au Vietnam par Neil Sheehan
Gagnant1989
A Bright Shining Lie I par Neil Sheehan
1989
The brutality of nations par Dan Jacobs
Mention honorable1988
Beloved par Toni Morrison
Gagnant1988
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage par Pauli Murray
Gagnant1988
Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement par Mary King
1988
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution par Elizabeth Becker
Mention honorable1987
The Political Life of Children par Robert Coles
Mention honorable1987
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference par David J. Garrow
Gagnant1987
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families par J. Anthony Lukas
Gagnant1986
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee par Robert J. Norrell
Gagnant1986
Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines par David Haward Bain
Mention honorable1985
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation par Joel Williamson
Mention honorable1985
A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (Galaxy Books) par Joel Williamson
Mention honorable1985
Weakness & Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador par Raymond Bonner
Gagnant1985
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy par Jules Tygiel
Mention honorable1984
Children of War par Roger Rosenblatt
Gagnant1984
The Fate of the Earth par Jonathan Schell
Mention honorable1983
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. par Stephen B. Oates
Gagnant1983
The Pursuit of a Dream par Janet Sharp Hermann
Gagnant1982
The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (Phoenix Book) par Anthony M. Platt
Gagnant1982
Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley par John Gaventa
Mention honorable1981
Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America par John Langston Gwaltney
Mention honorable1981
Civilities and Civil Rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom par William H. Chafe
1981
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