2011
Shane Harris for The Watchers; The Rise of America’s Surveillance State (video) (press release) (Huffington Post) (photo gallery)
2010
David Finkel for The Good Soldiers (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux) (video) (press release) (Huffington Post) (photo gallery)
2009
Jane Mayer for The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (Doubleday) (video) (press release)
2008
Charlie Savage for Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (Little Brown & Company) (video)
2007
Lawrence Wright for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Alfred A. Knopf)
2006
George Packer for The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2005
Jason DeParle for American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare (Viking)
2004
Dana Priest for The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military (W. W. Norton & Company)
2003
Keith Bradsher for High and Mighty: SUVs--The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way
2002
Nina Bernstein for The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
2001
Elaine Sciolino, for Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
2000
James Mann, for About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton; and Patrick Tyler, for A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History
1999
Philip Gourevitch, for We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda
1998
Patti Waldmeir, for Anatomy of A Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa
1997
David Quammen, for The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
1996
Tina Rosenberg, for The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
1995
Joseph Nocera, for A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class
1994
David Remnick, for Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
1993
Samuel Freedman, for Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church
1992
Alex Kotlowitz, for There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
1991
Nicholas Lemann, for The Promised Land
1990
Thomas Friedman, for From Beirut to Jerusalem
1989
Judy Woodruff, for her series of television reports focusing on the Iran-Contra affair
1988
James Reston, in recognition of his fifty-year contribution to journalism
