2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex

Judith Levine

Explores the highly sensitive issue of children and sex, offers advice on separating harmful from safe information about sex, and offers parents a guide to presenting the topic to their children….

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril

Timothy Ferris

The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention

Nicolaus Mills, Kira Brunner

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich

Kevin Phillips