Board lander photo
Board lander photo caption
front row left to right: N. Carroll, J. Díaz, R. Blau, S. Hahn, D. Canedy, G. Collins, N. Barnes; back row left to right: J. Daniszewski, N. Brown, E. Alexander, K. Boo, E. Robinson, E. Ramshaw, A. Marqués, S. Engelberg, T. Shelby (absent: L. Bollinger, S. Coll) (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)
Board Lander Sub Title
Robert Blau and Steven Hahn, co-chairs; Dana Canedy, administrator
Bernice Yeung
Publication
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
Citation
An unembellished series of case studies about sexual violence exacted on mostly immigrant women in America, many toiling in a shadow economy.
Publisher
The New Press
Tags:
2019
Categories:
General Nonfiction
Elizabeth Rush
Publication
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
Citation
A rigorously reported story about American vulnerability to rising seas, particularly disenfranchised people with limited access to the tools of rebuilding.
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Tags:
2019
Categories:
General Nonfiction
Eliza Griswold
Citation
A classic American story, grippingly told, of an Appalachian family struggling to retain its middle class status in the shadow of destruction wreaked by corporate fracking.
Tags:
2019
Categories:
General Nonfiction
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Caroline Weber
Publication
Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Citation
A revelatory work that speaks to the power and influence of three women at the highest levels of French society, whose lives intertwined in the imagination of novelist Marcel Proust.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Tags:
2019
Categories:
Biography