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PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
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The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award is a biennial award given to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues which has been published in the United States during the previous two calendar years. It is intended that the winning book possess the qualities of intellectual rigor, perspicuity of expression, and stylistic elegance conspicuous in the writings of author and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, whose four dozen books and countless other publications continue to provide an important and incisive commentary on the American social, intellectual and political scene.
2007 judges: Jane Kramer, Jeffery Madrick, and David Nasaw
The 2007 PEN Literary Awards will presented in New York on the evening
of Monday, May 21 at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
For more information contact Nick Burd: (212) 334-1660, ext. 108, nick@pen.org
Please click here for more information on this award.
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2007 Awardee
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The inaugural award will go to James Carroll for his book House of War (Houghton Mifflin).
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the judges’ citation: “Mr. Carroll has given us…[an] important
and…enduring book about the role of one of our most powerful
institutions—the Pentagon—during the 50 historic years of the Cold War.
In doing so, he has put to rest a half-century of myths about the
period and the institution. He has presented the people in his
story—from the villains to the heroes—with insight and sympathy, never
separating those men from the parts they played nor from the sweep of
the history they helped to shape. Nor does he separate that history
from his own personal history—the story of an evolving awareness of the
immensely complicated and often damning relationship
between our military-industrial complex and the foreign
policy it drove. House of War is
in the best American—or should we say Galbraithian?—tradition of
honorable, muckraking scholarship and narrative passion, made
memorable by the warm, critical, and never hidden heart of a man
who loves his country enough to demand the best from it.” |
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Finalists
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Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
for The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Knopf)
Thomas E. Ricks
for Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (The Penguin Press)
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