The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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Year | Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
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2011 | Book | Isabel Wilkerson | The Warmth of Other Suns | Random House | |
2001 | Book | Jack Metzgar | Striking Steel | Temple University Press | |
1982 | Book | Jacobo Timerman | Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number | ||
1995 | Book | James Traub | City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College | Perseus Books | |
1962 | Book | Jane Jacobs | Death and Life of Great American Cities | ||
2009 | Book | Jane Mayer | The Dark Side | Doubleday | |
2005 | Book | Jason DeParle | American Dream | Viking Press | |
1974 | Book | Jervis Anderson | A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. | |
1950 | Book | John Hersey | The Wall | Modern Library | |
1959 | Book | John Kenneth Galbraith | The Affluent Society | Houghton Mifflin | |
1956 | Book | John Lord O'Brien | National Security and Individual Freedom | Harvard University Press | |
1983 | Book | Jonathan Schell | The Fate of the Earth | ||
1986 | Book | Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | Crown | |
1967 | Book | Joseph P. Lyford | The Airtight Cage | ||
2000 | Book | Katherine S. Newman | No Shame in my Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City | Russell Sage Foundation/Knopf | |
2016 | Book | Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
1966 | Book | Kenneth B. Clark | Dark Ghetto | ||
2023 | Book | Margaret A. Burnham | By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners | W. W. Norton & Co. | |
2017 | Book | Matthew Desmond | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Crown | |
1963 | Book | Michael Harrington | The Other America | ||
1972 | Book | Morton Mintz & Jerry S. Cohen | America Inc. | ||
2006 | Book | N/A | Award withheld | ||
1989 | Book | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | ||
1996 | Book | Nelson Lichtenstein | The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (Distinguished Honorable Mention) | Basic Books | |
1992 | Book | Nicholas Lemann | The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America | Knopf |