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2013

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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Chrystia Freeland
Published by Doubleday Canada and The Penguin Press
“In Plutocrats, Chrystia Freeland describes the evolution of a new global elite of unprecedented economic, social and political power. This mobile, denaturalized community affects the lives of billions as its wealth and values distance it from even the wealthiest of societies. Freeland explores consequent issues of equity and accountability with fluency and intimacy, capturing the…
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Lionel Gelber Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony | 2013
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The Shortlist

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

  • Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
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  • Kwasi Kwarteng
    Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World
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  • Pankaj Mishra
    From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
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  • Paul Bracken
    The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Popwer Politics
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Jurors
William Thorsell
Jury Chair (Toronto, Canada)
Daniel W. Drezner
Massachusetts, USA
Margaret Wente
Toronto, Canada
Walter Russell Mead
USA
Gaynor Lilian Johnson
United Kingdom
Press releases
Five Books Advance to the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist
Twelve Books That Will Change the Way You Think About International Affairs: The Lionel Gelber Prize Longlist
Jury Announced for the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize
Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats Takes the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize
Media coverage
Spur Toronto, a festival of politics, art, ideas, launches
Toronto Star, April 11, 2013
Chrystia Freeland: On Inequality
TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, April 11, 2013
All of Canada’s major banks ‘too big to fail’: Goar
Toronto Star, April 3, 2013
Plutocrats – the credibility of capitalism itself is at stake
The Globe and Mail, March 26, 2013
Chrystia Freeland takes top literary non-fiction Gelber Prize for Plutocrats
Toronto Star, March 25, 2013
Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats wins Lionel Gelber Prize
The Globe and Mail, March 25, 2013
Chrystia Freeland wins Lionel Gelber Prize for Plutocrats
National Post, March 25, 2013
Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats wins 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize
Quill and Quire, March 25, 2013
Plutocrats author Chrystia Freeland wins $15,000 book prize for international affairs
The Globe and Mail, March 25, 2013
In these new books, a global future of power and technology emerges
The Globe and Mail, March 25, 2013
Lionel Gelber Prize finalists examine hangovers of history
Toronto Star, March 24, 2013
Chrystia Freeland: The rise & fall of the 1%
National Post, March 13, 2013
Introducing the 2013 Gelber Prize Finalists
Foreign Policy, February 20, 2013
Five books in line for Gelber Prize
Metro News, February 19, 2013
Chrystia Freeland makes Lionel Gelber Prize shortlist
Quill and Quire, February 19, 2013
Five books on foreign affairs make shortlist for $15,000 Gelber Prize
Brandon Sun, February 19, 2013
Lionel Gelber Prize shortlist highlights non-fiction on foreign affairs
Toronto Star, February 19, 2013
Lionel Gelber Prize reveals shortlist
National Post, February 19, 2013
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