Best book on foreign affairs
Award Year: 1987
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 1987
Recipient: Raymond Bonner
Affiliation: Times Books
Honored Work: “Waltzing with a Dictator: the Marcoses and the Making of American Policy”
This excellent narrative, based on more than 3,200 previously classified documents and on interviews with key participants, traces the relationship between five U.S. Administrations and the Marcos regime, revealing many facts for the first time.
Citation for Excellence:
Arthur Bonner
“Among the Afghans”
Duke University Press