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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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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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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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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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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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Tags Share The 1993 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Vice President Al Gore for Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. A bracing call to action, Earth in the Balance argues that we must make “rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization.” The book focuses on the…

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Tags Share The 1992 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Melissa Fay Greene for Praying for Sheetrock. Praying for Sheetrock is set in McIntosh County, an area in the backwoods of Georgia that somehow remained untouched by the nation-wide changes of the civil rights movement a decade before. Greene tells the story of…

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Tags Share The 1990 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Tracy Kidder for Among Schoolchildren and Alec Wilkinson for Big Sugar. Among Schoolchildren chronicles a year in the life of a diverse fifth-grade class in Holyoke, an industrial city in southwestern Massachusetts. Kidder presents “a compelling microcosm of what is wrong—and right—with our…

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Tags Share The 1992 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Myles Horton and Herbert and Judith Kohl for The Long Haul and Andrew Revkin for The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. The Burning Season tells the story of Chico Mendes, a labor and…

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Tags Share The 1992 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Myles Horton and Herbert and Judith Kohl for The Long Haul and Andrew Revkin for The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. The Long Haul is the autobiography of Myles Horton, a labor organizer…

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Tags Share The 1990 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Tracy Kidder for Among Schoolchildren and Alec Wilkinson for Big Sugar. Big Sugar describes the dangerous work of thousands of West Indian workers in the American sugar industry and the miserable conditions in which they live. A former policeman and musician, Alec Wilkinson…

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Tags Share The 1989 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Neil Sheehan for A Bright Shining Lie and Jonathan Kozol for Rachel and Her Children. A Bright Shining Lie, which also won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989, tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann,…

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