Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerPrisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a NumberJacobo Timerman, Toby TalbotAn Argentine newspaper publisher who dared to criticize his government's policy of cruel repression, tells the story of his arrest, imprisonment, and torture....Amazon

1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Fate of the EarthJonathan SchellThese two books, which helped focus national attention on the movement for a nuclear freeze, are published in one volume....Amazon

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerLost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help BookWalker Percy“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is ...Amazon

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerCities and the Wealth of NationsJane JacobsIn this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities a...Amazon

1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerHabits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American LifeRobert Neelly Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. TiptonBased on conversations with hundreds of Americans, this volume reveals the self-understanding of Americans as a people and as a nation "The contemporary benchmark from which to look back and look forward in the continuing inquiry about ......Amazon

1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerMove Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and WhiteJoseph Lelyveld...Amazon

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without DesignRichard DawkinsRichard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution. The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor...Amazon

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerSecrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the CountryWilliam GreiderReveals how the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker engineered changes in America's economy...Amazon

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerParting the Waters: Volume 1 of America in the King Years, 1954-1963Taylor BranchIn volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is de...Amazon

1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerWithout Fear Or Favor: The New York Times and Our TimesHarrison Evans Salisbury...Amazon