Goldsmith Book Prize. Winners 1993 to present

The purpose of the Goldsmith Book Prize is to recognize works that "improve government through an examination of the intersection between press, politics, and public policy." The prize is awarded to the book published in the previous year that best exemplifies the fulfillment of this goal. The first such prize was awarded in 1993.

The Goldsmith Awards Program, launched in 1991, is based at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a part of Harvard University. The program includes two separate book prizes, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism.

2007

Academic: Diana C. Mutz, Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy
Trade: Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation"

2006

Academic: James A. Stimson, Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics
Trade: Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism

2005

Academic: Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics
Trade: Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications

2004

Academic: Scott L. Althaus, Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People
Paul M. Kellstedt, The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes
Trade: Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson, Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq

2003

Academic: Doris Graber, Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age
Trade: Leonard Downie, Jr. and Robert Kaiser, The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril

2002

Academic: Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki, The Black Image in the White Mind
Trade: Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, The Elements of Journalism

2001

Lawrence R. Jacobs & Robert Y. Shapiro, Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness

2000

Robert McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy

1999

James Hamilton, Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming

1998

Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955

1997

No award given

1996

Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar, Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate

1995

William Hoynes, Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market and the Public Sphere

1994

Cass R. Sunstein, Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech

1993

Greg Mitchell, Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics