Annal:1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1994 LATimes–Current Interest winner
- Score: 10.44
Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America’s approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations.
Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive, Diplomacy stands as the culmination of a lifetime of diplomatic service and scholarship. It is vital reading for anyone concerned with the forces that have shaped our world today and will impact upon it tomorrow.
Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question
- 1994 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.44
A unique contribution to the debate over the original intentions of the Framers of the U.S. Constitutions.
The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism
- 1994 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.44
When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women’s movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a foundation of weakness and fear.
At Harvard, and later as a graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw a thoroughly new phenomenon taking shape on campus: the emergence of a culture captivated by victimization, and of a new bedroom politics in the university, cloaked in outdated assumptions about the way men and…
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
- 1994 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.44
Parallel Time is an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? For Brent Staples, there is the added dimension of race: moving from a black world into one largely defined by whites.
As the oldest son among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. First a scholarship to a local college and then one for graduate study at the University of…
- 1994 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- Score: 6.44
James Wilson seeks to reconcile traditional ideas of morality with an extraordinary range of important empirical research into the sources of human behavior over the last 50 years. His findings will shake the assumption of many readers.
