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2000 Winners  Grand Prize Winner
In NO SHAME IN MY GAME, anthropologist Katherine Newman presents a view of inner-city poverty radically different from that commonly accepted. What Newman reveals -- as she focuses on the working poor in Harlem, one of the country's most depressed urban areas -- is a community of people who are committed to earning a living, struggling to support themselves and their families on minimum-wage, dead-end jobs, and clinging to the dignity of a regular paycheck, no matter how meager.
The life of Nelson Mandela is one of the most extraordinary epics of the 20th century. An almost-forgotten prisoner on Robben Island 20 years ago, apparently doomed to a hopeless existence as a victim of apartheid, he not only survived but almost single-handedly saved South Africa from potential chaos, becoming one of the most widely admired leaders in the world. Mandela's myth is dazzling; in this biography Anthony Sampson penetrates it to show us the man himself.
Founder of the Children's Defense Fund and longtime advocate of the rights and welfare of children, Marian Wright Edelman was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial.
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