Award Profile
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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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Randall Kennedy
Tags Share The 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards were presented to Randall Kennedy for Race, Crime, and the Law and Samuel Hynes for The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern Conflict. In Race, Crime, and the Law, Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School, not only uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice…
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John Lewis and Michael D’Orso
Tags Share The 1999 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award went to Congressman John Lewis for Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, written with Michael D’Orso. John Lewis has been a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives serving Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District since 1987. Born of a strong family amidst rural…
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Samuel Hynes
Tags Share The 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards were presented to Randall Kennedy for Race, Crime, and the Law and Samuel Hynes for The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern Conflict. Samuel Hynes’s The Soldiers’ Tale focuses on the two World Wars and Vietnam, and on the accounts written by victims of war and…
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David M. Oshinsky
Tags Share The 1997 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was given to David M. Oshinsky for Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. Drawing on prison records, state archives, legislative hearings, court proceedings, folklore, and the blues, Oshinksy reconstructed the harrowing history of Parchman Farm, the state penitentiary in Mississippi.…
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Dan T. Carter
Tags Share The 1996 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Pete Earley for Circumstantial Evidence and Dan T. Carter for The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. In The Politics of Rage, historian Dan Carter argues that Alabama Governor George Wallace’s segregationist…
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Pete Earley
Tags Share The 1996 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Pete Earley for Circumstantial Evidence and Dan T. Carter for The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. Pete Earley’s Circumstantial Evidence draws upon exhaustive reporting and a suspenseful narrative to explore a…
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Jack Bass
Tags Share The 1994 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Jack Bass for Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. and the South’s Fight Over Civil Rights. In Taming the Storm, Jack Bass tells the story of Judge Frank Johnson, an unsung hero of the Civil Rights…
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John Egerton
Tags Share John Egerton received the 1995 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. History recalls Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, and the other brave leaders of the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. But…
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