NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism - Previous Winners

Retirement Heist How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers By Schultz, Ellen (Book - 2011)

The Watchers The Rise of America's Surveillance State By Harris, Shane (Book - 2010)

The Good Soldiers By Finkel, David, 1955- (Book - 2009)

The Dark Side The inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into A War on American Ideals By Mayer, Jane (Book - 2008)

Takeover The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy By Savage, Charlie (Book - 2008)

The Looming Tower Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 By Wright, Lawrence, 1947- (Book - 2005, c2006)

The Assassins' Gate America in Iraq By Packer, George, 1960- (Book - 2005)

American Dream Three Women, Ten Kids, and A Nation's Drive to End Welfare By DeParle, Jason (Book - 2004)

The Mission Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military By Priest, Dana (Book - 2003)

High and Mighty SUVs--the World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way By Bradsher, Keith (Book - 2002)

The Lost Children of Wilder The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care By Bernstein, Nina, 1949- (Book - 2001)

Persian Mirrors The Elusive Face of Iran By Sciolino, Elaine (Book - 2000)

A Great Wall Six Presidents and China : An Investigative History By Tyler, Patrick (Book - 1999)

About Face A History of America's Curious Relationship with China from Nixon to Clinton By Mann, Jim, 1946- (Book - 2000, c1998)

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Stories from Rwanda By Gourevitch, Philip, 1961- (Book - 1998)

Anatomy of A Miracle The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa By Waldmeir, Patti (Book - 1997)

The Song of the Dodo Island Biogeography in An Age of Extinctions By Quammen, David, 1948- (Book - 1996)

The Haunted Land Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism By Rosenberg, Tina (Book - 1995)

A Piece of the Action How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class By Nocera, Joseph (Book - 1994)

Lenin's Tomb The Last Days of the Soviet Empire By Remnick, David (Book - 1994)

Upon This Rock The Miracles of A Black Church By Freedman, Samuel G. (Book - 1993)

There Are No Children Here The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America By Kotlowitz, Alex (Book - 1991)

The Promised Land The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America By Lemann, Nicholas (Book - 1991)

From Beirut to Jerusalem By Friedman, Thomas L. (Book - 1995)

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The NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism is given to a working journalist whose books have brought clarity and public attention to important issues, events, or policies. It was established in 1987 and includes a 15,000 prize. Previous winners of the award include David Finkel, Jane Mayer, Charlie Savage, Dana Priest, and George Packer.

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