The Goldsmith Book Prize is a literary award for books published in the United States. Description The award is meant to recognize works that "[improve] government through an examination of the intersection between press, politics, and public policy." The prize is awarded to the book published in the previous year that best exemplifies the fulfillment of this goal. The first such prize was awarded in 1993. The program was expanded in 2002 to include two separate book prizes, for trade and academic works. The Goldsmith Awards Program, launched in 1991, is based at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a part of Harvard University. The center also gives out the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. Book Prize winners 2020 No award given 2019 Academic: Matthew Hindman, The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines DemocracyMargaret E. Roberts, Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall Trade: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die 2018 No award given 2017 Academic: James T. Hamilton, Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism Trade: David Greenberg, Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency 2016 Academic: Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril and Claes H. de Vreese, Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective Trade: Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion 2015 Academic: Daniela Stockmann, Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China Trade: Andrew Pettegree, The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself 2014 Academic: Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson, Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice Matthew Levendusky, How Partisan Media Polarize America Trade: Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future? 2013 Academic: Jonathan M. Ladd, Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters Trade: Rebecca MacKinnon, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom 2012 Academic: Jeffrey E. Cohen, Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age Trade: Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom 2011 Academic: Tim Groeling, When Politicians Attack: Party Cohesion in the Media Patrick J. Sellers, Cycles of Spin: Strategic Communication in the U.S. Congress Trade: Jack Fuller, What Is Happening to the News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism 2010 Academic: Matthew Hindman, The Myth of Digital