Award archive category: Book

Best book on foreign affairs John Toland has been acclaimed by many for this definitive biography of the man who caused more destruction than anyone else in world history. Influenced by playwright Porter Emerson Brown, who taught him ” the rudiments of the craft, as well as how to deal off the bottom of a…

Best book in foreign affairs “The first casualty when war comes is truth,” said Sen. Hiram Johnson in 1917. London Sunday Times special correspondent Phillip Knightley has expanded this thesis in a book, “The First Casualty, ” in which he evaluates the role of war correspondents during the past 120 years. In the book, published by…

Of all the dozens of tributes to the late Cornelius Ryan, perhaps one of the most eloquent was written by Theodore H. White, from which the following is excerpted: “Ryan was one of the great masters of the well-told story. he was one of those who brought to climax that particular American excellence in the…

Besides being the author of the New York Time’s thrice-weekly column, “Foreign Affairs,” C.L. Sulzberger is an inveterate diarist. With his latest book he has completed the trilogy of memoirs that began with A Long Row of Candles and followed with The Last of the Giants. This book deals with today’s leaders, whom Sulzberger finds…