2008-- Charlie Savage for Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency
and the Subversion of American Democracy (Little Brown & Company)
Press
release
2007-- Lawrence Wright for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Alfred A. Knopf)
Press
release
2006-- George Packer for The Assassin’s Gate:
America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Press
release
2005 -- Jason
DeParle for American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids,
and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare (Viking)
Press release
2004 -- Dana
Priest for The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace
with America’s Military (W. W. Norton & Company)
Press release
2003 -- Keith Bradsher for High
and Mighty: SUVs--The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How
They Got That Way
Press release
2002 -- Nina Bernstein for The
Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
Press release
2001 -- Elaine Sciolino, for Persian
Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
Press release
2000 -- James Mann, for About
Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from
Nixon
to Clinton; and Patrick Tyler, for A Great Wall: Six Presidents
and China: An Investigative History
Press release
1999 -- Philip Gourevitch,
for We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with
our families: stories from rwanda
Press release
1998 -- Patti Waldmeir,
for Anatomy of A Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of
the New South Africa
Press release.
1997 -- David Quammen,
for The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
Press release
1996 -- Tina Rosenberg,
for The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Press release
1995 -- Joseph Nocera,
for A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money
Class
1994 -- David Remnick,
for Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
1993 -- Samuel Freedman,
for Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church
1992 -- Alex Kotlowitz,
for There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up
in the Other America
1991 -- Nicholas Lemann,
for The Promised Land
1990 -- Thomas Friedman,
for From Beirut to Jerusalem
1989 -- Judy Woodruff,
for her series of television reports focusing on the Iran-Contra affair
1988 -- James Reston,
in recognition of his fifty-year contribution to journalism
Winners of
The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein
Book Award for Excellence in Journalism