ANNUAL BOOK AWARD
ANNUAL BOOK AWARD The political book award for 1988 goes to Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch. In a review of the book in this magazine, Jason DeParle...
...University of Pittsburgh Press...
...A Fool and His Money: The Odyssey of an Average Investor...
...Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber...
...John P. Hoerr...
...Neil Sheehan...
...And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry...
...Mark Reutter...
...John Rothchild...
...Simon & Schuster...
...Sparrows Point: Making Steel—The Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might...
...Random House...
...Morrow...
...David Osborne...
...Brooks Jackson...
...Louis Lowenstein...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...In a review of the book in this magazine, Jason DeParle wrote: "What's striking about Taylor Branch's terrific book is how mightily uninevitable King's victories seemed at the time ....Branch's meticulous research laces the saga with nuance and irony...
...A Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam...
...Viking...
...RUNNERS UP Laboratories of Democracy...
...John B. Judis...
...The Spy Who Got Away...
...Honest Graft: Big Money and the American Political Process...
...Pantheon...
...David Wise...
...Philip M. Stern...
...Random House...
...There is news in his additions to the story of the FBI's dishonor, but much of the book's joy is simply in the reading....Branch's prose shines...
...Pantheon...
...Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988...
...Nowhere to Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill...
...Addison-Wesley...
...E. Fuller Torrey...
...Summit...
...The Best Congress Money Can Buy...
...Nan Robertson...
...Nick Kotz...
...Haryard Business School Press...
...Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous...
...William F. Buckley Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives...
...Doyle McManus, Jane Mayer...
...Harper and Row...
...Knopf What's Wrong with Wall Street: Short-term Gain and the Absentee Shareholder...
Vol. 21 • March 1989 • No. 2
