The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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Year | Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
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1956 | Book | John Lord O'Brien | National Security and Individual Freedom | Harvard University Press | |
1959 | Book | John Kenneth Galbraith | The Affluent Society | Houghton Mifflin | |
1991 | Book | Andrew Revkin | The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest | Houghton Mifflin | |
2016 | Book | Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
1992 | Book | Nicholas Lemann | The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America | Knopf | |
2008 | Book | Robert Kuttner | The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity | Knopf | |
1958 | Book | Wilma Dykeman & James Stokely | Neither Black Nor White | Literary Licensing, LLC | |
2022 | Book | Clint Smith | How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America | Little, Brown and Company | |
2014 | Book | Ira Katznelson | Fear Itself | Liveright Publishing Corp | |
2018 | Book | Richard Rothstein | The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Liveright/W.W. Norton | |
2019 | Book | Anna Clark | The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy | Metropolitan Books | |
1950 | Book | John Hersey | The Wall | Modern Library | |
1955 | Book | Henry Steele Commager | Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent | Oxford University Press | |
2024 | Book | Samuel G. Freedman | Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights | Oxford University Press | |
1987 | Book | Robert S. McNamara | Blundering Into Disaster | Pantheon | |
1995 | Book | James Traub | City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College | Perseus Books | |
1957 | Book | Walter Gellhorn | Individual Freedom and Government Restraints | Praeger | |
2011 | Book | Isabel Wilkerson | The Warmth of Other Suns | Random House | |
2021 | Book | Zachary D. Carter | The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes | Random House | |
2000 | Book | Katherine S. Newman | No Shame in my Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City | Russell Sage Foundation/Knopf | |
2013 | Book | Tracie McMillan | The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table | Scribner | |
1999 | Book | Taylor Branch | Pillar of Fire | Simon & Schuster | |
2002 | Book | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement | Simon & Schuster | |
2021 | Book | Rick Perlstein | Reaganland: America’s Right Turn (1976-1980) | Simon & Schuster | |
2003 | Book | Steven R. Weisman | The Great Tax Wars | Simon & Schuster |