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TORONTO and WASHINGTON, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Sara Charney, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board, announces the shortlist for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize:
Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs by Peter Andreas
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
Trade Wars are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis
Isolationism: A History of America s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World by Charles A. Kupchan
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan These five books tell powerful stories about war, democracy, and inequality, three of the biggest challenges of our rapidly changing world. All deeply researched and argued, they signal that the world that we are going towards is very different than the world we left behind, said Sara Charney, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board.
Ezra Vogel, a Harvard scholar of Japan and China, dies at 90
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated January 30, 2021, 4:46 p.m.
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Dr. Ezra Vogel spent most of his academic career at Harvard and published several books on Asian affairs.Matt Craig,Staff Photographer/Harvard University News Office
With the intriguing title âJapan as Number One: Lessons for America,â Ezra Vogelâs best-known book was a best seller in Japan and back home in the United States, where the Harvard University professorâs fellow citizens might not have been as welcoming of the opinion that their country was no longer first.