The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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Year | Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
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2024 | Book | Samuel G. Freedman | Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights | Oxford University Press | |
2023 | Book | Margaret A. Burnham | By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners | W. W. Norton & Co. | |
2022 | Book | Clint Smith | How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America | Little, Brown and Company | |
2022 | Book | Eyal Press | Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
2021 | Book | Rick Perlstein | Reaganland: America’s Right Turn (1976-1980) | Simon & Schuster | |
2021 | Book | Zachary D. Carter | The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes | Random House | |
2020 | Book | Rachel Louise Snyder | No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us | Bloomsbury | |
2019 | Book | Anna Clark | The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy | Metropolitan Books | |
2018 | Book | Richard Rothstein | The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Liveright/W.W. Norton | |
2017 | Book | Matthew Desmond | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Crown | |
2016 | Book | Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
2015 | Book | Edward E. Baptist | The Half Has Never Been Told | Basic Books | |
2014 | Book | Ira Katznelson | Fear Itself | Liveright Publishing Corp | |
2013 | Book | Tracie McMillan | The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table | Scribner | |
2012 | Book | Frank Bardacke | Trampling Out the Vintage | Verso | |
2011 | Book | Isabel Wilkerson | The Warmth of Other Suns | Random House | |
2010 | Book | Nick Reding | Methland | Bloomsbury | |
2009 | Book | Steven Greenhouse | The Big Squeeze | Knopf | |
2009 | Book | Jane Mayer | The Dark Side | Doubleday | |
2008 | Book | Robert Kuttner | The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity | Knopf | |
2007 | Book | Thomas E. Ricks | Fiasco | ||
2006 | Book | N/A | Award withheld | ||
2005 | Book | Jason DeParle | American Dream | Viking Press | |
2004 | Book | David Von Drehle | Triangle | Grove/Atlantic | |
2003 | Book | Steven R. Weisman | The Great Tax Wars | Simon & Schuster |