Finalists have been announced for the C$15,000 (about US$11,800) Lionel Gelber Prize, which is administered by the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Foreign Policy magazine. The award honors "the world's best nonfiction book in English on foreign affairs." The winner will be named April 12. This year's finalists are:
To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa by Emily Bass
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger
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The shortlists for the Lukas Prizes, sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and honoring "the best in American nonfiction writing," are:
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize:
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott (Random House)
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth (Dutton)
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias by Jessica Nordell (Metropolitan)
The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager (Norton/Liveright)
Mark Lynton History Prize:
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth (Simon & Schuster)
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Noah Feldman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers by Amanda Frost (Beacon Press)
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (Random House)
Surviving Katyń: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth by Jane Rogoyska (Oneworld/Simon & Schuster)
J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards:
We Were Once a Family: The Hart Murder-Suicide and the System Failing Our Kids by Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
American Scare: A Cold War in the Sunshine State by Robert Fieseler (Dutton)
Disillusioned: How the Suburbs and Their Schools Undermine the American Dream by Benjamin Herold (Penguin Press)
The Life: Sex, Work, and Love in America by May Jeong (Atria)
The Prince and the Revolutionary: Children of War by Suki Kim (Norton)
Winners will be announced on March 16, and the awards will be presented at a ceremony on May 3.