Lionel Gelber Prize Winners

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Winners

	Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein 4.17 avg rating — 1,041 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Light that Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev 4.15 avg rating — 1,111 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze 4.30 avg rating — 3,353 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933 by Anne Applebaum 4.39 avg rating — 6,542 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS by Robert F. Worth 4.26 avg rating — 1,031 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone by Scott Shane (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 563 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy 4.22 avg rating — 1,443 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass 4.34 avg rating — 2,108 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland 3.64 avg rating — 2,950 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel 4.45 avg rating — 3,048 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America by Shelagh D. Grant 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor 4.17 avg rating — 384 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East by Lawrence Freedman 3.85 avg rating — 88 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier 3.86 avg rating — 7,513 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 30,880 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild 4.30 avg rating — 2,061 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll 4.31 avg rating — 16,124 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy by Ivo H. Daalder 3.46 avg rating — 112 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead 4.10 avg rating — 524 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 by Robert Skidelsky 4.28 avg rating — 57 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History by Patrick Tyler 3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild 4.15 avg rating — 55,690 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loosing the Bonds by Bob Massie 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aftermath: The Remnants of War by Donovan Webster 4.30 avg rating — 418 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev by Vladislav M. Zubok 3.70 avg rating — 166 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 by Eric J. Hobsbawm 4.28 avg rating — 6,565 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism by Michael Ignatieff 3.84 avg rating — 281 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World by Kanan Makiya 4.10 avg rating — 77 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truman by David McCullough 4.14 avg rating — 85,578 ratings Lionel Gelber Prize (1992)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of the Warlord States by Dorothy V. Jones liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Lionel Gelber Prize (1991)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars