The 17th Annual Political Book Award
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY 17th Annual Book Award The Political Book Award for 1986 goes to The Reckoning by David Halberstam. In a review of the book in this magazine Robert Cumberford...
...Supercarrier...
...George C. Wilson...
...Simon & Schuster...
...In a review of the book in this magazine Robert Cumberford wrote: "David Halberstam has produced the best and most important book ever written on the auto industry, but making cars is not its subject...
...Random House...
...Bitter Victory...
...Weidenfeld & Nicholson...
...Times Books...
...Selling Money...
...Gwynne...
...Oxford University Press...
...Random House...
...Doubleday...
...Robert Shaplen...
...Harper & Row...
...The Triumph of Politics...
...The Straw Giant: A Report from the Field...
...RUNNERS UP Greed & Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman...
...The Big Boys: Power & Position in American Business...
...Dusko Doder...
...it's about money and men, and Halberstam gives us the men so clearly and truthfully that it is difficult to believe he has not been a Detroit insider all his life...
...Arthur Hadley...
...Challenger: A Major Malfunction...
...Mal Be American wealth and productive capacity, [and] the apparent inability of the richest nation the world has ever known to maintain the ethic and attitudes that created its strength...
...Knopf Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization & the Terror Famine...
...The Wise Men: Six Men and the World they Made...
...Shadows and Whispers: Power & Politics Inside the Kremlin from Brezhnev to Gorbachev...
...Macmillan...
...The Rise of the CounterEstablishment: From Conservative Ideology to Political Power...
...Peter Maas...
...Divorce Revolution...
...Malcolm McConnell...
...Free Press...
...Random House...
...William Broyles Jr...
...David Stockman...
...The auto industry isn't about cars...
...Beginning on page 39, James Fallows discusses the lessons of The Reckoning...
...Lenore Weitzman...
...Robert Conquest...
...Rather it is about the decline of The Best and the 13rigbfesi and the Power...
...Pantheon...
...Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas...
...Random House...
...Ralph Nader & William Taylor...
...Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace...
...Sidney Blumenthal...
...Manhunt...
...Ken Auletta...
...Harper & Row...
Vol. 19 • April 1987 • No. 3
