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 Public
Service - New York Times for "A Nation Challenged",
a special daily section of the newspaper reporting on the aftermath
of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. |
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Investigative
Reporting - Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham and Sarah Cohen of The
Washingtton Post for a four part series, "The District's Lost
Children".
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National
Reporting - The Washingtton Post for a series of articles related
to the terorist investigation.
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| International
Reporting - Barry Bearak of The New York Times for coverage of
ordinary Afghanis enduring war and famine. |
| Feature
Writing - Barry Siegel of The Los Angeles Times for an account
of a murder trial. |
| Beat
Reporting - Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times for hidden
conflicts of interest among stock analysts. |
| Explanatory
Writing - The New York Times for a three part series "Holy
Warriors". |
| Breaking
News - The Wall Street Journal for reporting on the New York
terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. |
| Criticism
- Justin David of Newsday for his "crisp coverage of classical
music". |
| Commentary
- Thomas Friedman of The New York Times for "clarity of
vision, based on extensive reporting". |
| Editorial
Writing - Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen of The Los Angeles Times
"for their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring
the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on
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"Ice
Field" by Henry Bryant -Henry Bryant, a pioneer of spatial
music ( the planned positioning of performers throughout a concert
hall) for "Ice Field". "Ice Field" was premiered
by The San Francisco Orchestra on December 12, 2001.
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John
Adams by David McCullough
Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived
out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family
and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who,
David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and not fond
of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United
States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary
leaders. He found reason to dislike sectarian wrangling even more
in the aftermath of war, when Federalist and anti-Federalist factions
vied bitterly for power, introducing scandal into an administration
beset by other difficulties--including pirates on the high seas,
conflict with France and England, and all the public controversy
attendant in building a nation.
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 The
Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
If past is prologue, then The Metaphysical Club
by Louis Menand may suggest an intellectual course for the United
States in the 21st century. At least Menand, a frequent contributor
to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, thinks so. This
enthralling study of Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Charles
Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey shows how these four men developed
a philosophy of pragmatism following the Civil War, a period Menand
likens to post-cold-war times. Together, "they were more responsible
than any other group for moving American thought into the modern
world."
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 Empire
Falls by Richard Russo
Like most of Richard Russo's earlier novels, Empire
Falls is a tale of blue-collar life, which itself increasingly resembles
a kind of high-wire act performed without the benefit of any middle-class
safety nets. This time, though, the author has widened his scope,
producing a comic and compelling ensemble piece. There is, to be sure,
a protagonist: fortysomething Miles Roby, proprietor of the local
greasy spoon and the recently divorced father of a teenage daughter.
But Russo sets in motion a large cast of secondary characters, drawn
from every social stratum of his depressed New England mill town.
We meet his ex-wife Janine, his father Max (another of Russo's cantankerous
layabouts), and a host of Empire Grill regulars. We're also introduced
to Francine Whiting, a manipulative widow who owns half the town--and
who takes a perverse pleasure in pointing out Miles's psychological
defects.
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 Carry
Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama : The Climactic Battle of the Civil
Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863,
but a contemporary African American saying predicted that freedom
would come only after another hundred years of struggle. That prediction
was about right: the civil rights struggle erupted in the middle
of the 20th century, with its violent epicenter in the industrial
city of Birmingham, Alabama. There freedom riders and voter-rights
activists faced down Klansmen and Nazis, who had put aside their
own differences to cast a pall of terror--and the smoke of a well-orchestrated
campaign of church bombings--over the South. Diane McWhorter, a
journalist and native Alabamian, offers a comprehensive, literate
record of the struggle that covers more than half a century and
that involves hundreds of major actors. Her work is solidly researched
and highly readable, and it offers much new information.
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Topdog/Underdog
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A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family
identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined
by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers
whose names were given to them as a joke, forettling a lifetime
of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers
are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
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 Practical
Gods by Carl Dennis
Carl Dennis is a professor at SUNY Buffalo
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