Goldsmith Book Prize The Goldsmith Book Prize is a literary award for books published in the United States .
Book Prize winners
Academic: Adam Berinsky , Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It
Trade: Laura Beers , Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century Academic: Anita Gohdes , Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
Trade: Sander van der Linden , Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity Academic: Danny Hayes and Jennifer L. Lawless , News Hole: The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement
Trade: Deborah Cohen , Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World At War Academic: Karen Mossberger , Caroline Tolbert , and Scott J. LaCombe, Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities
Trade: Elizabeth Becker , You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War Academic: John Maxwell Hamilton, Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda
Trade: Stephen Bates, An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press No award given Academic: Matthew Hindman, The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy Margaret E. Roberts , Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall
Trade: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt , How Democracies Die No award given 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 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 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 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? 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 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 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 Academic: Matthew Hindman , The Myth of Digital Democracy
Trade: John Maxwell Hamilton , Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Academic: Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki , The Black Image in the White Mind
Trade: Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel , The Elements of Journalism Lawrence R. Jacobs & Robert Y. Shapiro , Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness Robert McChesney , Rich Media, Poor Democracy James Hamilton, Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming Richard Norton Smith , The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955 No award given Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar , Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate William Hoynes , Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market and the Public Sphere [ 6] Cass R. Sunstein , Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech [ 7] Greg Mitchell , Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics [ 8] [ 9]