Goldsmith Book Prize

The Goldsmith Book Prize is a literary award for books published in the United States.

Description
The award is meant to recognize works that "[improve] government through an examination of the intersection between press, politics, and public policy." The prize is awarded to the book published in the previous year that best exemplifies the fulfillment of this goal. The first such prize was awarded in 1993. The program was expanded in 2002 to include two separate book prizes, for trade and academic works.

The Goldsmith Awards Program, launched in 1991, is based at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a part of Harvard University. The center also gives out the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Book Prize winners

 * 2020
 * No award given

Margaret E. Roberts, Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall
 * 2019
 * Academic: Matthew Hindman, The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
 * Trade: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die


 * 2018
 * No award given


 * 2017
 * Academic: James T. Hamilton, Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism
 * Trade: David Greenberg, Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency


 * 2016
 * Academic: Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril and Claes H. de Vreese, Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective
 * Trade: Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion


 * 2015
 * Academic: Daniela Stockmann, Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China
 * Trade: Andrew Pettegree, The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself


 * 2014
 * Academic: Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson, Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice
 * Matthew Levendusky, How Partisan Media Polarize America
 * Trade: Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?


 * 2013
 * Academic: Jonathan M. Ladd, Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters
 * Trade: Rebecca MacKinnon, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom


 * 2012
 * Academic: Jeffrey E. Cohen, Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age
 * Trade: Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom


 * 2011
 * Academic: Tim Groeling, When Politicians Attack: Party Cohesion in the Media
 * Patrick J. Sellers, Cycles of Spin: Strategic Communication in the U.S. Congress
 * Trade: Jack Fuller, What Is Happening to the News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism


 * 2010
 * Academic: Matthew Hindman, The Myth of Digital Democracy
 * Trade: John Maxwell Hamilton, Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting


 * 2009
 * Academic: Markus Prior, Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections.
 * Trade: Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals


 * 2008
 * Academic: John G. Geer, In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns
 * Trade: Ted Gup, Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life


 * 2007
 * Academic: Diana C. Mutz, Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy
 * Trade: Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation


 * 2006
 * Academic: James A. Stimson, Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics
 * Trade: Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism


 * 2005
 * Academic: Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics
 * Trade: Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications


 * 2004
 * Academic: Scott L. Althaus, Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People
 * Paul M. Kellstedt, The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes
 * Trade: Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson, Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq


 * 2003
 * Academic: Doris Graber, Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age
 * Trade: Leonard Downie, Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser, The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril


 * 2002
 * Academic: Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki, The Black Image in the White Mind
 * Trade: Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, The Elements of Journalism


 * 2001
 * Lawrence R. Jacobs & Robert Y. Shapiro, Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness


 * 2000
 * Robert McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy


 * 1999
 * James Hamilton, Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming


 * 1998
 * Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955


 * 1997
 * No award given


 * 1996
 * Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar, Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate


 * 1995
 * William Hoynes, Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market and the Public Sphere


 * 1994
 * Cass R. Sunstein, Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech


 * 1993
 * Greg Mitchell, Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics