Award Profile
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Miriam Pawel
Tags Share Miriam Pawel received the 2015 RFK Book Award for The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, a biography of the United Farm Workers leader who transformed the landscape of labor rights in America and who forged a lasting partnership with Robert F. Kennedy. Miriam Pawel is an author, journalist and independent scholar who has spent…
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John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Tags Share John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell received the 2014 RFK Book Award for March: Book One. Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls of…
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Thomas Healy
Tags Share Thomas Healy received the 2014 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for The Great Dissent, a history of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s landmark dissent in Abrams v. United States, which gave rise to the robust First Amendment that Americans know today. Thomas Healy is a professor of law at Seton Hall…
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
Tags Share The 2013 RFK Book Award Winner is The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future, by Joseph E. Stiglitz. Joseph E. Stiglitz is a University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Co-Chair of Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Co-President of the…
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Amy Bach
Tags Share Amy Bach received the 2010 RFK Book Award for Ordinary Injustice. In Ordinary Injustice, Bach details the everyday failings of the American justice system. Her well-researched and reported work argues that because those affected by the American justice system’s failures tend to be poor or minorities, these individuals are often overlooked, and because…
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Michael Lewis
Tags Share The 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Michael Lewis for The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, which describes the escalating U.S. housing bubble in the 2000s and subsequent financial crisis of 2007-8. Michael Lewis is an author and financial journalist. Lewis has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair…
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Kathryn Sikkink
Tags Share The 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winner was presented to Kathryn Sikkink for The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics, which forcefully makes the case for the necessity and efficacy of prosecuting international heads of state for human rights violations. Kathryn Sikkink is a Regents Professor and the…
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Michael Honey
Tags Share Acclaimed labor historian Michael Honey received the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign. In this illuminating history, Honey describes the events that brought Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in the last days of his life: the Sanitation Workers’ Strike…
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Karl Jacoby
Tags Share Karl Jacoby received the 2009 RFK Book Award for Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History. In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono Oodham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century…
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Jane Mayer
Tags Share Celebrated journalist Jane Mayer won the 2009 RFK Book Award for The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. Mayer, a Washington-based investigative reporter for The New Yorker, chronicles the missteps of top U.S. national security officials in the pursuit of the…
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Dave Eggers
Tags Share Dave Eggers received the 2010 RFK Book Award for Zeitoun. The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy…
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Douglas Brinkley
Tags Share Douglas Brinkley received the 2007 RFK Book Award for The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Based on hundreds of interviews with hurricane survivors, first responders, and elected officials, The Great Deluge recounts the events of Katrina in gripping detail, offering portraits of both everyday heroism and official…
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