1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner
Sidewalk
Mitchell Duneier
Presents the lives of poor African-American men who make their subsistence wages by selling used goods on the streets of Greenwich Village in New York; and discusses how they interact with passing pedestrians, police officers, and each other….
1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Shortlist
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey
Leila Ahmed
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
Richard A. Posner
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden
