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The Lionel Gelber Prize – The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
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2014

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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
Gary J. Bass
Published by Alfred A. Knopf
“Gary Bass draws a brilliant portrait of the tragic birth of Bangladesh. He produces shocking revelations about the role of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in backing Pakistan’s genocidal suppression of democracy in Bangladesh, even as American diplomats on the ground described the horrors around them. This is an epic tale told with verve and…
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Lionel Gelber Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony | 2014
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The Shortlist

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

  • Benn Steil
    The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
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  • Brendan Simms
    Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present
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  • Eric Schlosser
    Command and Control: Nuclear Weapns, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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  • Lynne Olson
    Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
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Jurors
Daniel W. Drezner
Jury Chair (Massachusetts, USA)
Timothy Garton Ash
Oxford, England
Christya Freeland
Toronto, Canada
Matias Spektor
Sao Paulo, Brazil
William Thorsell
Canada
Press releases
The 2014 Gelber Prize Shortlist Reveals Year’s Best Foreign Affairs Books Worldwide  
The 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize Longlist: Important Global Works for a World of Readers
Noted International Thinkers Join William Thorsell to Form the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize Jury
The Blood Telegram Wins the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize
Media coverage
These five books reflect the vision of a changed America
The Globe and Mail, February 11, 2014
Eric Schlosser among finalists for Lionel Gelber Prize
The Vancouver Sun, February 10, 2014
Introducing the 2014 Gelber Finalists
Foreign Policy, February 10, 2014
Gelber Prize shortlists five foreign affairs books
Toronto Star, February 10, 2014
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