Award Profile
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Geoffrey Stone
Tags Share The 2005 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was given to Geoffrey Stone for Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism. In Perilous Times, Stone examines the ways that the First Amendment has been curtailed during wartime throughout American history. Geoffrey R. Stone is…
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Jim Wooten
Tags Share The 2005 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was given to Jim Wooten for We Are All the Same. Wooten’s We Are All the Same puts a human face on the African AIDS epidemic through the story of one South African child and his mother. The global battle against the ravages and spread of…
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Scott Turow
Tags Share Scott Turow won the 2004 RFK Book Award for Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty, a provocative account of Turow’s personal experience as a lawyer on both sides of the death penalty debate. In this concise and elegantly written book, Turow examines the case for and against the…
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Mamie Till-Mobley
Tags Share Mamie Till-Mobley received the 2004 RFK Book Award for Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America. In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two white men and…
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Philip Dray
Tags Share The 2003 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was given to Philip Dray for At the Hands of a Person Unknown: The Lynching of Black America and Samantha Power for A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. In At the Hands of a Person Unknown, Dray examines one of the ugliest…
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Samantha Power
Tags Share The 2003 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was given to Philip Dray for At the Hands of a Person Unknown: The Lynching of Black America and Samantha Power for A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. In A Problem From Hell, Power offers a damning and agonizing portrait of the…
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Gail Buckley
Tags Share Gail Lumet Buckley received the 2002 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm, an account of the African-Americans who defended the United States despite racism both at home and in the ranks overseas. Gail Lumet Buckley is a journalist…
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Eric Arnesen
Tags Share Eric Arnesen received the 2002 RFK Book Award for Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America’s historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Eric Arnesen gives us…
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Katherine Newman
Tags Share The 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award went to Anthony Sampson for Mandela and Katherine Newman for No Shame in My Game. Katherine Newman’s No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City challenges many of the assumptions surrounding poverty in America. For two years, Newman, a professor of urban…
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Anthony Sampson
Tags Share The 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award went to Anthony Sampson for Mandela and Katherine Newman for No Shame in My Game. Sampson’s Mandela, the only authorized biography of the leader who ended Apartheid, follows Nelson Mandela from his boyhood in remote villages to his transformation into a global icon of strength, moral…
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George Packer
Tags Share The 2001 RFK Book Award was presented to James Allen for Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America and George Packer for Blood of the Liberals. George Packer’s Blood of the Liberals skillfully blends his family history with the story of liberalism in America, resulting in a moving portrait of idealism and its inevitable…
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James Allen
Tags Share The 2001 RFK Book Award was presented to James Allen for Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America and George Packer for Blood of the Liberals. James Allen’s Without Sanctuary is a chilling collection of photographs of lynchings that bring the horrors of the past to life. James Allen is a collector who uncovered…
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