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The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees

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Year Categorysort icon Honoree Title Publisher/Airer Site
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
2009 Book Jane Mayer The Dark Side Doubleday Go
2009 Book Steven Greenhouse The Big Squeeze Knopf Go
2010 Book Nick Reding Methland Bloomsbury Go
2011 Book Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Sons Random House Go
2006 Blog Joshua Micah Marshall Coverage of Social Security Issues Talking Points Memo Go
2007 Blog Sam Rosenfeld, Web editor, Ann Friedman, Web deputy editor , Garance Franke-Ruta, Ezra Klein, and Matthew Yglesias, bloggers Tapped The American Prospect Go
2008 Blog Faiz Shakir and Amanda Terkel Think Progress: A Project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund Center for American Progess Go
2009 Blog Marcy Wheeler Emptywheel Firedoglake.com Go
2010 Blog Jonathan Cohn The Treatment New Republic Go
2010 Blog Ezra Klein Ezra Klein The Washington Post Go
2012 Blog Frank Bardacke Trampling Out the Vintage Verso Go