Finalist: The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq , by George Packer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux )
The Jury
The Jury
Henry Finder(chair )
editorial director
Lawrence Bobo
Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor
Jonathan Weiner*
writer and professor
Winners in General Nonfiction
2006 Prize Winners
The Times-Picayune
For its heroic, multi-faceted coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, making exceptional use of the newspaper's resources to serve an inundated city even after evacuation of the newspaper plant. (Selected by the Board from the Public Service category, where it was entered.)
Sun Herald
For its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need.
Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith
For their indefatigable probe of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff that exposed congressional corruption and produced reform efforts.