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Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich (Author), Bela Shayevich (Translator)
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
Sarah Chayes
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Jeff Hobbs
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital,
Sheri Fink
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo
Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Barton Gellman
Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
Elizabeth D. Samet
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
Ian Buruma
Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War
Anthony Shadid
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Evan Wright
The New Chinese Empire And What It Means for the United States
Ross Terrill
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
Judith Levine
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
Frances FitzGerald
Sidewalk
Mitchell Duneier
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
Peter Maass
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Gregory Howard Williams
Diplomacy
Henry A. Kissinger
Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority
Peter Skerry
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process
E.J. Dionne
Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century
O.B. Hardison, Jr.
Parting the Waters: Volume 1 of America in the King Years, 1954-1963
Taylor Branch
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
William Greider
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
Joseph Lelyveld
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Robert Neelly Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Jane Jacobs
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Walker Percy
The Fate of the Earth
Jonathan Schell
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Jacobo Timerman, Toby Talbot
Without Fear Or Favor: The New York Times and Our Times
Harrison Evans Salisbury
