Annal:1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1993. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority
- 1993 LATimes–Current Interest winner
- Score: 10.43
What will become of the burgeoning numbers of Mexican American immigrants on American society? The answer, argues Peter Skerry, lies not so much with the social and economic progress of Mexican Americans as with the political institutions within which they define their interests—institutions radically changed from what greeted America’s last great influx of newcomers.
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
- 1993 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.43
A highly personal story about returning to her African roots by the eminent British writer, African Laughter is also a rich and penetrating portrait of Doris Lessing’s homeland. In it she recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for twenty-five years for her opposition to the white minority government. The visits constitute an unforgettable journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked by Lessing in a dazzling narrative of vivid detail and…
Preparing for the Twenty-First Century
- 1993 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.43
Kennedy’s groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to robotics to draw a detailed, persuasive, and often sobering map of the very near future—a bold work that bridges the gap between history, prophecy, and policy.
- 1993 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.43
Brock’s thorough investigation of the evidence in the Thomas-Hill hearings concluded that there was no reason to believe Anita Hill’s accusations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas. Brock’s book—a national sensation which landed on the New York Times bestseller list—is the definitive rebuttal of Hill’s charges.
- 1993 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.43
Written by the author of the highly acclaimed And the Band Played On, this extraordinary and unique exploration of gays in the military and gay persecution in the miliatary is nothing short of a masterpiece of investigative reporting. Shilts spoke with hundreds of lesbian and gays in all levels of the military and tells their stories of pain and pride with an attention to detail and depth of feeling that will leave readers moved and educated and with better understanding.
