Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerWhy Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic ProcessE.J. DionneAnalyzes apathy in American politics, arguing that name-calling and rhetoric have clouded the issues...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistThe Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In AmericaShelby SteeleAmazonThe Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & PowerDaniel YerginAmazonThe Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaNicholas LemannAmazonThe United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of OfficeAlan EhrenhaltAmazon

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe End of History and the Last ManFrancis FukuyamaA provocative exploration of issues of human society and destiny answers such questions as, is there a direction to human history? does history have an end? and where are we now?...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistChain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American PoliticsThomas Byrne Edsall, Mary D. EdsallAmazonCulture Wars: The Struggle to Define AmericaJames Davison HunterAmazonDen of ThievesJames B. StewartAmazonThe Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in KyotoPico IyerAmazon

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerMexican Americans: The Ambivalent MinorityPeter Skerry"Some of us have been here for three hundred years, some for three days." This comment, often repeated by Mexican Americans, affirms their status as one of America's oldest ethnic groups, as well as one of its newest and fastest growing. Not surprisingly, ...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistAfrican Laughter: Four Visits to ZimbabweDoris May LessingAmazonConduct UnbecomingRandy ShiltsAmazonPreparing for the Twenty-First CenturyPaul KennedyAmazonThe Real Anita HillDavid BrockAmazon

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerDiplomacyHenry A. KissingerKissinger's absorbing book tackles head-on some of the toughest questions of our time . . . Its pages sparkle with insight' Simon Schama in the NEW YORKER Spanning more than three centuries, from Cardinal Richelieu to the fragility of the 'New World Order...Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistOriginal Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed QuestionHarry V. JaffaAmazonParallel Time: Growing Up in Black and WhiteBrent StaplesAmazonThe Moral SenseJames Q. WilsonAmazonThe Morning After: Sex, Fear, and FeminismKatie RoipheAmazon

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerLife on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was BlackGregory Howard WilliamsThe true story of a whote boy who discovered he was black....Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistBeyond Individualism: How Social Demands of the New Identity Groups Challenge American Political andMichael J. PioreAmazonBlue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles RiotsNancy Abelmann, John LieAmazonGrowing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What HelpsSarah McLanahan, Gary SandefurAmazonWe, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of DemocracyJeffrey AbramsonAmazon

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerLove Thy Neighbor: A Story of WarPeter MaassAn account of one journalist's experience from 1992-93 of the conflict in Bosnia, this work is an attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming questions that are provoked by witnessing the destruction of a nation....Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Civil ActionJonathan HarrAmazonAll God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceFox ButterfieldAmazonAshes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard KlugerAmazonMoving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of IndependenceJohn HockenberryAmazonThe Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an A...

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownAnne FadimanA study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors' methods....Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest DisasterJon KrakauerAmazonOur Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect SuburbBernard LefkowitzAmazonRace, Crime, and the LawRandall KennedyAmazonThe Rise and Fall of Gay CultureDaniel HarrisAmazon

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from RwandaPhilip GourevitchAn unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone i...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistAmerican Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and MemoryRuss RymerAmazonArticles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion WarsCynthia GorneyAmazonCold New World: Growing Up in a Harder CountryWilliam FinneganAmazonOn the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High SchoolCristina RathboneAmazon