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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
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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

2006

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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
Adam Hochschild
Published by Houghton Mifflin
The Shortlist

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

  • Caroline Elkins
    Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
  • Jeffrey D. Sachs
    The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
  • Stephen M. Walt
    Taming American Power: The Global Approach to US Primacy
  • Daniel Benjamin
    Steven Simon
    The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right
Jurors
George Russell
Jury Chair (New York City, USA)
Anne-Marie Slaughter
USA
David Halton
Canada
Thomas J. Biersteker
USA
Tod Lindberg
USA
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Bury the Chains wins Lionel Gelber prize
TheChronicleHerald.ca, March 14, 2006
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