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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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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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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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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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Taylor Branch
Tags Share Taylor Branch received the 2007 RFK Book Award for At Canaan’s Edge. At Canaan’s Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the…
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John Hope Franklin
Tags Share John Hope Franklin received the 2006 RFK Book Award for his memoir Mirror to America, which recounts his life as an African-American man in the 20th century. Born in 1915, Franklin’s life took him from the indignities of institutional racism (including being threatened with lynching) to chair the University of Chicago’s history department.…
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P.W. Singer
Tags Share P.W. Singer received the 2006 RFK Book Award for Children at War. From U.S. soldiers having to fight children in Afghanistan and Iraq to juvenile terrorists in Sri Lanka to Palestine, the new, younger face of battle is a terrible reality of 21st century warfare. Indeed, the very first American soldier killed by…
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Nick Kotz
Tags Share Nick Kotz received the 2006 RFK Book Award for Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nick Kotz offers the first thorough account of the complex working relationship between Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. Tracing both leaders’ paths,…
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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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