Annal:1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century
- 1990 LATimes–Current Interest winner
- Score: 10.4
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath
- 1990 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.4
My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
- 1990 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.4
Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala
- 1990 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.4
The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
- 1990 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.4
The first trade paperback edition of the New York Times best-seller about West Point’s Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Atkinson.
This is the story of the twenty-five-year adventure of the generation of officers who fought in Vietnam. With novelistic detail, Atkinson tells the story of West Point’s Class of 1966 primarily through the experiences of three classmates and the women they loved—from the boisterous cadet years and youthful romances to the fires of Vietnam, where dozens of their classmates died and hundreds more grew disillusioned, to the hard peace and family adjustments that followed. The rich cast of characters includes Douglas MacArthur, William Westmoreland, and a score of other memorable figures. The West Point Class of 1966 straddled a fault line in American history, and Rick Atkinson’s masterly book speaks for a generation of American men and women about innocence, patriotism, and the price we pay for our dreams.




