Past Recipients of Ann M. Sperber Prize

The Newspaper Axis

2023
The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
by Kathryn Olmsted

2022
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
by Elizabeth Becker

Black Radical Book Cover

2021
Black Radical The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
by Kerri Greenidge

Fallout Book Cover

2021
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It
by Lesley Blume

Cover of Book Working by Robert A. Caro

2020
Working
by Robert A. Caro

Reporter by Seymour M. Hersh book cover

2019
Reporter
by Seymour M. Hersh

The Voice of America by Mitchell Stephens

2018
The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism
by Mitchell Stephens

Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb

2017
Avid Reader: A Life
by Robert Gottlieb

Man in Profile - Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker

2016
Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker
by Thomas Kunkel

Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow

2015
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
by Charles M. Blow'

Seymour Hersh: Scoop Artist

2014
Seymour Hersh: Scoop Artist
by Robert Miraldi

Cronkite

2013
Cronkite
by Douglas Brinkley

 

The Lives of Margaret Fuller

2012
Lives of Margaret Fuller
by John Matteson

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

2011
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
by Alan Brinkley

American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone

2010
American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone
by D.D. Guttenplan

Bill Mauldin: Up Front

2009
Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
by Todd DePastino

All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of I.F. Stone

2007
All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone
by Myra MacPherson

A Matter of Opinion

2006
A Matter of Opinion
Victor Navasky

City Room

2005
City Room
Arthur Gelb

Scotty - James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism by John F. Stacks

2003
Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism
by John F. Stacks

Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty

2002
Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty
by Dennis McDougal

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst

2001
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
by David Nasaw

The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times

2000
The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones

All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of American Slavery

1999
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of American Slavery
by Henry Mayer