13th ANNUAL BOOK AWARDS
13th ANNUAL BOOK AWARDS The Path to Power. Robert Caro. Knopf The Political Book Award for 1982 goes to The Path to Power by Robert Caro and to The Underclass by Ken Auletta. Auletta's book...
...He spent seven months with one group of 26 trainees attending classes designed, in the author's words, 'to instill the habit of work and to expunge bad habits.' He also visited M D RC programs in Mississippi and West Virginia and read widely in the literature of poverty...
...University of Illinois Press...
...Media Unbound: The Impact of Television Jounalism on the Public...
...Diana McLellan...
...Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency...
...Putnam...
...Stephan Lesher...
...Samuel K. Gove, Louis Masotti, eds...
...Little, Brown...
...Theodore FL White...
...Revolt Against Regulation...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...The Reagan Experiment...
...Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century...
...Harper & Row...
...Mancur Olson...
...The Years of Upheaval...
...The Kennedy Imprisonment...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...Henry Kissinger...
...University of California Press...
...The Political Economics of Aging...
...The Puzzle Palace: A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency...
...The Politics of Park Design...
...Stanley I. Kutler...
...Knopf Global Insecurity: A Strategy for Economic Renewal...
...Jimmy Carter...
...Spreading the American Dream—American Economic and Cultural Expansion: 1980-1945...
...Atlantic Little, Brown...
...Joel Seligman...
...Auletta's book is not discussed in this issue, but was reviewed last summer by Charles Peters in The New York Times Book Review: "The author, a New York journalist, studied job programs run by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, an organization funded by foundations and the federal government...
...The Education of David Stockman and Other Americans...
...Simon & Schuster...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...John Hope Franklin, August Meier, eds...
...University of Illinois Press...
...Pawn of Yalta...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...The Transformation of Wall Street...
...The Dragon and the Bear: Inside China & Russia Today...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Columbia University Press...
...Bantam...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...Hill & Wang...
...NA L Books...
...American Journey...
...He sees these people as human beings, real and whole, and his empathy for even the most incorrigible of them is contagious...
...Basic Books...
...Michael Pertschuk...
...Arbor House...
...Ear on Washington...
...University of Illinois Press...
...He combines the interviews—more than 250 in fact—and personal observations that give life to journalism with the scholar's discipline and systematic diligence...
...E. P. Dutton...
...America's Old Age Crisis...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...William Greider...
...THE NOMINEES After Daley...
...Keeping Faith...
...The Urban Institute Press...
...Jonathan Schell...
...Random House...
...Yale University Press...
...Stephen Crystal...
...None of the Above: Why Presidents Fail—and What Can Be Done About It...
...The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future...
...Galen Cranz...
...Auletta is admirable in refusing to be limited by the mindlessly anecdotal approach of much popular journalism or blinded by the conventional liberal bias toward poverty (It's all society's fault...
...The Rise and Decline of Nations...
...John L. Palmer, Isabel V. Sawhilt, eds...
...Nathan Perlmutter, Ruth Ann Perlmutter...
...University of Illinois Press...
...Richard Reeves...
...Richard D. Lamm, Michael McCarthy...
...Philip Short...
...Arbor House...
...The Real Anti-Semitism in America...
...University of Illinois Press...
...Fred Powledge...
...Water: The Nature, Uses, and Future of Our Most Precious and Abused Resource...
...Hamilton Jordan...
...The Path to Power is discussed elsewhere in the issue by Nicholas Lemann ("Today's Best Journalism: Better than Fiction," page 24...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...Mark R. Elliot...
...America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956-1980...
...Daniel Yergin, Martin Hillenbrand, eds...
...Nick Salvatorre...
...Emily S. Rosenberg...
...James Bamford...
...The Fate of the Earth...
...Laura Katz Olson...
...His mind is equally open to Oscar Lewis, a liberal anthropologist, and Edward Banfield, a conservative political scientist, though he clearly does not accept the mythology of the extreme right that depicts the underclass as composed entirely of lazy, vicious, oversexed criminals...
...Robert Shogan...
...Eugene V. Debs...
...The American Inquisition: American Justice and Injustice in the Cold War...
...Gary Wills...
Vol. 15 • March 1983 • No. 1
