The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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| Year | Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Book | Jonathan Blitzer | Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis | Penguin Press | |
| 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 | 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 | |
| 2002 | Book | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2001 | Book | Jack Metzgar | Striking Steel | Temple University Press | |
| 2000 | Book | Katherine S. Newman | No Shame in my Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City | Russell Sage Foundation/Knopf | |
| 1999 | Book | Taylor Branch | Pillar of Fire | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1998 | Book | Robert Kuttner | Everything for Sale | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 1997 | Book | William Julius Wilson | When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 1996 | Book | Fox Butterfield | All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 1996 | Book | Nelson Lichtenstein | The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (Distinguished Honorable Mention) | Basic Books | |
| 1995 | Book | James Traub | City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College | Perseus Books | |
| 1994 | Book | William Chafe | Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism | Basic Books | |
| 1994 | Book | Ray Marshall & Marc Tucker | Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations | Basic Books | |
| 1992 | Book | Nicholas Lemann | The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America | Knopf | |
| 1991 | Book | Andrew Revkin | The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1990 | Book | Thomas L. Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1989 | Book | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | ||
| 1988 | Book | Raymond Bonner | Waltzing With a Dictator | Times Books | |
| 1987 | Book | Robert S. McNamara | Blundering Into Disaster | Pantheon | |
| 1986 | Book | Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | Crown | |
| 1985 | Book | Strobe Talbott | Deadly Gambits | ||
| 1984 | Book | Seymour M. Hersh | The Price of Power | ||
| 1983 | Book | Jonathan Schell | The Fate of the Earth | ||
| 1982 | Book | Jacobo Timerman | Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number | ||
| 1981 | Book | Penny Lernoux | Cry of the People | ||
| 1980 | Book | William Shawcross | Sideshow - Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia | ||
| 1979 | Book | Charles E. Silberman | Criminal Violence, Criminal J u s t i c e | ||
| 1978 | Book | Philip Caputo | A Rumor of War | ||
| 1977 | Book | Richard Kluger | Simple Justice | ||
| 1976 | Book | E. J. Kahn, Jr. | The China Hands | ||
| 1975 | Book | Richard J. Barnet & Ronald E. Muller | Global Reach | ||
| 1975 | Book | Noel Mostert | Supership | ||
| 1974 | Book | Alexamder Solzhenitsyn | Special Award | ||
| 1974 | Book | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | The Imperial Presidency | ||
| 1974 | Book | Jervis Anderson | A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. | |
| 1973 | Book | Frances FitzGerald | Fire in the Lake | ||
| 1972 | Book | Morton Mintz & Jerry S. Cohen | America Inc. | ||
| 1970 | Book | Ramsey Clark | Crime in America | ||
| 1970 | Book | Congressman Richard McCarthy | The Ultimate Folly | ||
| 1969 | Book | George R. Stewart | Not So Rich As You Think | ||
| 1968 | Book | Ronald Steel | Pax Americana | ||
| 1968 | Book | Alan F. Westin | Privacy and Freedom | ||
| 1967 | Book | Joseph P. Lyford | The Airtight Cage | ||
| 1966 | Book | Kenneth B. Clark | Dark Ghetto | ||
| 1965 | Book | D r. James W. Silver | Mississippi: The Closed Society | ||
| 1965 | Book | Bernard D. Nossiter | The Mythmakers | ||
| 1964 | Book | Richard Hofstadter | Anti-lntellectualism in American Life | ||
| 1963 | Book | Michael Harrington | The Other America | ||
| 1962 | Book | Jane Jacobs | Death and Life of Great American Cities | ||
| 1961 | Book | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | ||
| 1961 | Book | David McEntire | Residence and Race | ||
| 1960 | Book | Harold M. Hyman | To Try Men's Souls | University of California Press | |
| 1959 | Book | John Kenneth Galbraith | The Affluent Society | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1958 | Book | Wilma Dykeman & James Stokely | Neither Black Nor White | Literary Licensing, LLC | |
| 1957 | Book | Walter Gellhorn | Individual Freedom and Government Restraints | Praeger | |
| 1956 | Book | John Lord O'Brien | National Security and Individual Freedom | Harvard University Press | |
| 1955 | Book | Henry Steele Commager | Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent | Oxford University Press | |
| 1954 | Book | Theodore H. White | Fire in the Ashes | Sloane | |
| 1953 | Book | Herbert Block | The Herblock Book | Beacon Press | |
| 1952 | Book | Alan Barth | The Loyalty of Free Men | Viking | |
| 1950 | Book | John Hersey | The Wall | Modern Library |