18th ANNUAL BOOK AWARDS

...18th ANNUAL BOOK AWARDS THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY wishes to recognize the following books published during 1987 for their special contribution to understanding this country and its problems...

...Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Alan S. Murray Random House Showdown at Gucci Gulch (reviewed June 1987) Allan Bloom Simon and Schuster The Closing of the American Mind (reviewed September 1987) Robert Kuttner Viking The Life of the Party (see page 46) Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon and Schuster The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (reviewed May 1987) William Greider Simon and Schuster Secrets of the Temple (reviewed January 1988) William Julius Wilson University of Chicago Press The Truly Disadvantaged (see page 52) Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus, Giroux The Bonfire of the Vanities (see page 42) Robert Woodward Simon and Schuster Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 (reviewed December 1987...