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The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism is an annual literary award for "a journalist whose work has brought public attention to important issues", awarded by the
New York Public Library . It was established in 1987 in memory of journalist
Helen Bernstein , and there is a cash award of $15,000.
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Winners
1988 –
James Reston for fifty years of journalism
1989 –
Judy Woodruff for television reporting of the
Iran–Contra affair
1990 –
Thomas Friedman for
From Beirut to Jerusalem
1991 –
Nicholas Lemann for The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
1992 –
Alex Kotlowitz for
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
1993 –
Samuel Freedman for Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church
1994 –
David Remnick for
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
1995 –
Joseph Nocera for A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class
1996 –
Tina Rosenberg for
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
1997 –
David Quammen for The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
1998 –
Patti Waldmeir for Anatomy of A Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa
1999 –
Philip Gourevitch for
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
2000 Joint winner: –
James Mann for About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton
2000 Joint winner: –
Patrick Tyler for
A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History
2001 –
Elaine Sciolino for Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
2002 –
Nina Bernstein for The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
2003 –
Keith Bradsher for High and Mighty: SUVs--The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way
2004 –
Dana Priest for The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military (W. W. Norton & Company)
2005 –
Jason DeParle for American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare (Viking)
2006 –
George Packer for
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2007 –
Lawrence Wright for
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Alfred A. Knopf)
2008 –
Charlie Savage for Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (Little Brown & Company)
2009 –
Jane Mayer for
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (Doubleday)
2010 –
David Finkel for
The Good Soldiers (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux)
2011 –
Shane Harris for
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
2012 –
Ellen Schultz for Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
2013 –
Katherine Boo for
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
2014 –
Dan Fagin for
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
2015 –
Anand Giridharadas for The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
2016 –
Jill Leovy for Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
2017 –
Jane Mayer for
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
2018 –
Masha Gessen for The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
2019
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Shane Bauer for
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by
Eliza Griswold
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by
Beth Macy
2020 –
Rachel Louise Snyder for No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
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2023 -
Ben Rawlence for The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
[6]
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by
Max Fisher
My Fourth Time We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by
Sally Hayden
The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City by
Nicholas Dawidoff
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of our Nation by
Linda Villarosa
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