1988 – for fifty years of journalism

James Reston

1989 – for television reporting of the Iran–Contra affair

Judy Woodruff

1990 – for From Beirut to Jerusalem

Thomas Friedman

1991 – for The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America

Nicholas Lemann

1992 – for There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

Alex Kotlowitz

1993 – for Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church

Samuel Freedman

1994 – for Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

David Remnick

1995 – for A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class

Joseph Nocera

1996 – for The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism

Tina Rosenberg

1997 – for The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

David Quammen

1998 – for Anatomy of A Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa

Patti Waldmeir

1999 – for We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch

2000 Joint winner: – for About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton

James Mann

2000 Joint winner: – for A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History

Patrick Tyler

2001 – for Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran

Elaine Sciolino

2002 – for The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

Nina Bernstein

2003 – for High and Mighty: SUVs--The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way

Keith Bradsher

2004 – for The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military (W. W. Norton & Company)

Dana Priest

2005 – for American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare (Viking)

Jason DeParle

2006 – for The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

George Packer

2007 – for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Alfred A. Knopf)

Lawrence Wright

2008 – for Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (Little Brown & Company)

Charlie Savage

2009 – for The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (Doubleday)

Jane Mayer

2010 – for The Good Soldiers (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux)

David Finkel

2011 – for The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State

Shane Harris

2012 – for Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers

Ellen Schultz

2013 – for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Katherine Boo

2014 – for Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Dan Fagin

2015 – for The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas

Anand Giridharadas

2016 – for Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Jill Leovy

2017 – for Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

2018 – for The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen

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List of past winners