Book Award Laureate
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Raymond Bonner
Tags Share Raymond Bonner received the 1985 RFK Book Award for Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy in El Salvador. A land and culture poorly understood by analysts, politicians, and voters in the far-off United States. A regime permeated with corruption; a country in the steel grip of a few families that disdained any system which…
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Stephen B. Oates
Tags Share The 1983 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Stephen B. Oates for Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. The book is a brilliant examination of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., that portrays a very real man and his dream that shaped America’s history. Stephen…
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William H. Chafe
Tags Share The 1981 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to William H. Chafe for Civilities and Civil Rights. The book reveals how whites in Greensboro, North Carolina, used the traditional Southern concept of “civility” as a means of keeping black protest in check and how, as a result, black activists continually devised new…
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Peter S. Prescott
Tags Share The 1982 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Peter S. Prescott for The Child Savers. The Child Savers is hailed as a definitive analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system. Platt’s principal argument is that the “child savers” movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but…
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