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The Lionel Gelber Prize - The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
The Lionel Gelber Prize – The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • About the Prize
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  • About the Prize
    • Rules for Eligibility
    • Submission Process
    • Sponsor
    • Press Room
  • Lionel Gelber Biography
  • 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize
  • Prize by Years
  • Multimedia

1999

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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism In Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild
Published by Houghton Mifflin
The Shortlist

The other shortlisted books for this year’s Lionel Gelber Prize were as follows:

  • H. W. Brands
    What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy
  • James Mann
    About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton
  • John W. Dower
    Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
  • Kai Bird
    The Color of Truth: M. George Bundy and William Bundy Brothers in Arms
Jurors
James H. Taylor
Jury Chair (Canada)
David A. Welch
Toronto, Canada
Robert H. Cassen
England
Patrick Martin
Canada
Bruce Jentleson
USA
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Crusading writer
MacLean's, November 1, 1999
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