Ridenhour Book Prize

Given by The Nation Institute

20 Works 12,926 Books 612 Reviews 4.2
Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1)
Announced:
March 28: 2023 Recent
WorkYear
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
2023
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
2022
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
2021
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
2020
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
2019
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham
2018
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
2017
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
2016
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal
2015
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
2014
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld
2013
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda by Ali H. Soufan
2012
Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans by Wendell Potter
2011
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
2010
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
2009
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders by James D. Scurlock
2008
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
2007
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid
2006
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
2005
Emma's War by Deborah Scroggins
Inaugural prize
2004

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