Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardWinner

Given by Robert F. Kennedy Memorial

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Each year the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial celebrates the book which most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes, his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for mostrar más honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity. mostrar menos
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El precio de la desigualdad por Joseph E. Stiglitz
2013
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin por John Hope Franklin
2006
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism por Geoffrey R. Stone
2005
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love por Jim Wooten
2005
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America por Philip Dray
2003
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide por Samantha Power
2003
Brotherhoods of Color : Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality por Eric Arnesen
2002
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm por Gail Lumet Buckley
2002
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America por James Allen
2001
Blood of the Liberals por George Packer
2001
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City por Katherine S. Newman
2000
Mandela: The Authorized Biography por Anthony Sampson
2000
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement por John Lewis
1999
The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War por Samuel Hynes
1998
Race, Crime, and the Law por Randall Kennedy
1998
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics por Dan T. Carter
1996
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town por Pete Earley
1996
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South por John Egerton
1995
Taming the Storm por Jack Bass
1994
La Tierra en juego. Ecología y conciencia humana. por Al Gore
1993
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction por Melissa Fay Greene
1992
The Long Haul: An Autobiography por Myles Horton
1991
The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest por Andrew Revkin
1991
Among Schoolchildren por Tracy Kidder
1990
Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida por Alec Wilkinson
1990
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America por Jonathan Kozol
1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam por Neil Sheehan
1989
Beloved por Toni Morrison
1988
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage por Pauli Murray
1988
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference por David J. Garrow
1987
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families por J. Anthony Lukas
1986
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee por Robert J. Norrell
1986
Weakness & Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador por Raymond Bonner
1985
Children of War por Roger Rosenblatt
1984
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. por Stephen B. Oates
1983
The Pursuit of a Dream por Janet Sharp Hermann
1982
The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (Phoenix Book) por Anthony M. Platt
1982

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