Books

Lionel Gelber Prize (awards)

This award was given to 21 books.


  1. Polar Imperative

    A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America

    by Shelagh D. Grant

    Year: 2011
  2. The Generalissimo

    Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China

    by Jay Taylor

    Year: 2010
  3. A Choice of Enemies

    America Confronts the Middle East

    by Lawrence Freedman

    Year: 2009
  4. The Bottom Billion

    Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    by Paul Collier

    Year: 2008
  5. The Looming Tower

    Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

    by Lawrence Wright

    Year: 2007
  6. Bury the Chains

    Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    by Adam Hochschild

    Year: 2006
  7. Ghost Wars

    The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

    by Steve Coll

    Year: 2004
  8. America Unbound

    The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy

    by Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay

    Year: 2003
  9. Special Providence

    American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

    by Walter Russell Mead

    Year: 2002
  10. John Maynard Keynes: Book 3

    John Maynard Keynes

    Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946

    by Robert Skidelsky

    Year: 2001
  11. A Great Wall

    Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History

    by Patrick Tyler

    Year: 2000
  12. King Leopold's Ghost

    A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

    by Adam Hochschild

    Year: 1999
  13. Loosing the Bonds

    The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years

    by Robert Massie

    Year: 1998
  14. Aftermath

    The Remnants of War

    by Donovan Webster

    Year: 1997
  15. Inside the Kremlin's Cold War

    From Stalin to Khrushchev

    by V. M. Zubok, Constantine Pleshakov

    Year: 1996
  16. The Age of Extremes

    A History of the World, 1914-1991

    by E. J. Hobsbawm

    Year: 1995
  17. Blood and Belonging

    Journeys Into the New Nationalism

    by Michael Ignatieff

    Year: 1994
  18. Cruelty and Silence

    War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World

    by Kanan Makiya

    Year: 1993
  19. Truman

    by David G. McCullough

    Year: 1992
  20. Code of Peace

    Ethics and Security in the World of the Warlord States

    by Dorothy V. Jones

    Year: 1991

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