 "Plutocrats" was a "New York Times" bestseller, and the winner of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize for non-fiction reporting on foreign affairs.It also won the 2013 National Business Book Award for the most outstanding Canadian business-related book.On July 26, 2013, Freeland left journalism to enter Canadian politics as a candidate for the nomination of the Liberal Party in the riding of Toronto Centre.