ANNUAL BOOK AWARD
1989 POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS HONORABLE MENTION From Beirut to Jerusalem. Thomas Friedman. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover....
...1ST PRIZE THE LONG GRAY LINE RICK ATKINSON Houghton Mifflin The political book award for 1989 goes to The Long Gray Line by Rick Atkinson...
...Karel van Wolferen...
...City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York...
...Alfred A. Knopf...
...John Keegan...
...Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York...
...Russell Baker...
...The Good Times...
...Harper and Row...
...Peter Elkind...
...Thomas Kessner...
...Basic Books...
...1989 POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS HONORABLE MENTION From Beirut to Jerusalem...
...Norton...
...What's Wrong with Wall Street...
...McGrawHill...
...Carl Bernstein...
...Lewis Lowenstein...
...Liar's Poker...
...Michael Lewis...
...More Like Us...
...Viking...
...James Fallows...
...Viking...
...The Price of Admiralty...
...Scribners...
...Warner Books...
...Norton...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...Bill McKibben...
...Ross K. Baker...
...In his review of the book for this magazine, James Fellows wrote: "Atkinson's book . . . shows that there can be tremendous power in simply telling a story—establishing characters, making the reader care about them, showing what happens next...
...Atkinson is a truly gifted storyteller, and the material he turns up is so rich...
...The Death Shift...
...Jack Newfield and Wayne Barrett...
...Simon and Schuster...
...Loyalties...
...James Q. Wilson...
...William Morrow...
...The Enigma of Japanese Power...
...Mud Soldiers...
...Random House...
...George C. Wilson...
...The End of Nature...
...Bureaucracy...
...House and Senate...
...Addison-Wesley...
Vol. 22 • March 1990 • No. 2
