Finalist: Way Out There in the Blue , by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster )
The Jury
The Jury
Pauline Maier(chair )
William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of American History
William Howard Adams
historian and writer
Helen Horowitz
Sylvia D. Bauman Professor of American Studies
Winners in History
2001 Prize Winners
David Cay Johnston
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
Alan Diaz
For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home.
Staff
For its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father.