The Washington Monthly's 2002 Annual Political Book Award Winners

The Washington Monthly's 2002 Annual Political Book Award Winners

Award Winners for 2002:


High and Mighty: SUVs: The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way by Keith Bradsher (Public Affairs)	The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack (Random House)	The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life by Richard Florida (Basic Books)	The Emerging Democratic Majority By John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira (Scribner)

Notable Books of 2002:

Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harrassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler (Doubleday)	Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz (W.W. Norton & Co.)
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael R. Beschloss (Simon and Schuster)	Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips (Broadway Books)
Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic's Serbia by Takis Michas (Texas A&M University Press)	Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot Cohen (Free Press)
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis by David Rieff (Simon and Schuster)	The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton by Joe Klein (Doubleday)
Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron by Robert Bryce (Public Affairs)	Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead & Richard C. Leone (Routledge)
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro (Knopf)	Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens (Basic Books)
Running on Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns 1960-2000 by Jeremy Mayer (Random House)	The Age of Sacred Terror by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon (Random House)
The Rise of the Southern Republicans by Earl and Merle Black (Belknap Press)	The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the 21st Century by Michael Mandelbaum (Public Affairs)

The Washington Monthly's Annual Political Book Award is presented to nonfiction titles which demonstrate a commitment to the public interest. We are particularly interested in reporting that explains the successes and failures of government agencies at all levels and of other institutions such as the media, corporations, unions, and foundations that contribute to the existence or solution of public problems.

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