Award archive category: Book

Best nonfiction book on international affairs YEAR: 2003 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2003 RECIPIENT: Milt Bearden, James Risen AFFILIATION: Random House HONORED WORK: “The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB” Bearden and Risen have written a revealing and disturbing insider’s account of the final stages of…

Best nonfiction book on international affairs AWARD YEAR: 2002 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2002 RECIPIENT: John Laurence AFFILIATION: PublicAffairs HONORED WORK: “The Cat from Hué: A Vietnam War Story” The Vietnam conflict still casts its shadow over the nation. John Laurence, widely judged by his colleagues to be the best television correspondent of…

Best nonfiction book on international affairs AWARD YEAR: 2001 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2001 RECIPIENT: Mark Bowden AFFILIATION: Grove/Atlantic HONORED WORK: “Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw” This book is a page-turning account of the hunt to track down and kill a South American drug lord. Killing Pablo combines the…

Best nonfiction book on international affairs AWARD DATE: 2000 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2000 AWARD RECIPIENT: A.J. Langguth AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Simon & Schuster AWARD HONORED WORK: “Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975” Our Vietnam is an elegantly structured, beautifully written, retelling of the story of America’s longest war. The author draws upon newly…

Best nonfiction book on foreign affairs AWARD YEAR: 1999 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 1999 RECIPIENT: Thomas L. Friedman AFFILIATION: Farrar Straus and Giroux HONORED WORK: “The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization” Thomas Friedman’s book is an ambitious work undertaken by an experienced correspondent. In a clear, comprehensive analysis of the post-cold-war…

Best nonfiction book on foreign affairs AWARD YEAR: 1998 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 1998 RECIPIENT: Philip Gourevitch AFFILIATION: Farrar Straus and Giroux HONORED WORK: “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda” Within the space of 100 days in 1994, ( 800,000 ‘Tutsis were…

Best nonfiction book on foreign affairs AWARD YEAR: 1997 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 1997 RECIPIENT: Patrick Smith AFFILIATION: Pantheon Books HONORED WORK: “Japan: A Reinterpretation” Smith has produced an intelligent, lucidly written analysis of contemporary Japan. The author gives us a fresh, nuanced, and surprisingly sad picture of a nation that has lost…

Best nonfiction book on foreign affairs AWARD DATE: 1994 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 1994 AWARD RECIPIENT: Michael Ignatieff AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Farrar, Straus and Giroux AWARD HONORED WORK: “Blood and Belonging” Michael Ignatieff’s book blended impressive on-the-ground reporting in some of the world’s most troubled regions with sharp, relevant generalizations about political and…