Goldsmith Book Prize

The Goldsmith Book Prize is awarded to the trade and academic book published in the last year that best fulfills the objective of improving government through an examination of the intersection between press, politics, and public policy.

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