Book News: NYPL Names Five Contenders for Bernstein Book Award
Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 5/12/2008 12:02:00 PM
- Finalists selected from 75 nominees
- Winner chosen May 20
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has named the five writers short listed for the 2008 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. The $15,000 prize is presented annually “to a journalist whose book brings clarity and public attention to important issues, events, or policies,” the library said. The nominees are:
- Jonathan Cohen, senior editor, The New Republic, for Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis—and the People Who Pay the Price (HarperCollins)
- Naomi Klein, columnist, The Nation and The Guardian, for The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt)
- Robyn Meredith, senior editor and foreign correspondent, Forbes, for The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us (Norton)
- Charlie Savage, Washington correspondent, The Boston Globe, for Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (Little, Brown)
- Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst, CNN and staff writer, The New Yorker, for The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Doubleday)
A Library Review Committee selected the finalists from an overall pool of 75 nominees. The winner will be announced May 20.
