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The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees

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Year Category Honoree Title Publisher/Airersort icon Site
1962 Book Michael Harrington The Other America
1961 Book Jane Jacobs Death and Life of Great American Cities
1960 Book David McEntire Residence and Race
1960 Book William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1959 Book Harold M. Hyman To Try Men
1958 Book John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society
1957 Book Wilma Dykeman & James Stokely Neither Black Nor White
1956 Book Walter Gellhorn Individual Freedom and Government Restraints
1955 Book John Lord O National Security and Individual Freedom
1954 Book Henry Steele Commager Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent
1953 Book Theodore H. White Fire in the Ashes
1952 Book Herbert Block The Herblock Book
1951 Book Alan Barth The Loyalty of Free Men
1950 Book John Hersey The Wall
1978 Newspaper I . F. Stone Special Award
1981 Magazine The Angolite Louisiana Death Watch
1976 Broadcast Paul Leaf Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1977 Broadcast Bill Moyers The Fire Next Door
1980 Broadcast MacNeil-Lehrer Report Special award for continued excellence in television journalism
1987 Broadcast Public Affairs Television, Inc. In Search of the Constitution
1988 Broadcast National Public Radio, News & Information Division In recognition of far-reaching and creative news coverage, "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition" and "Weekend Edition"
1991 Broadcast California Working Group This Far By Faith
1987 Newspaper The Journal The Unfinished Dream (Lorain Ohio)
2007 Broadcast Spike Lee and Sam Pollard When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/HBO Go
2001 Broadcast Belle Adler and Brad White American Dream, American Nightmare A&E Go