1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process

E.J. Dionne

Analyzes apathy in American politics, arguing that name-calling and rhetoric have clouded the issues…

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America

Shelby Steele

The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power

Daniel Yergin

The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America

Nicholas Lemann

The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office

Alan Ehrenhalt