1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

Sidewalk

Mitchell Duneier

Presents the lives of poor African-American men who make their subsistence wages by selling used goods on the streets of Greenwich Village in New York; and discusses how they interact with passing pedestrians, police officers, and each other….

A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey

Leila Ahmed

An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton

Richard A. Posner

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

Mark Bowden

Chosen By God: A Brother’s Journey

Joshua Hammer