'The world's most prestigious prize' : the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize /

'The world's most prestigious prize' : the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize /

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Author / Creator:	Lundestad, Geir, 1945- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	viii, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Nobel Prizes -- History. Peace -- Awards. Peace-building. Nobel Prize winners -- History. Nobel Prize winners. Nobel Prizes. Peace -- Awards. Peace-building. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11963246

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ISBN:	0198841876 9780198841876
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.
Summary:	The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel peace prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the prize, as well as its highs and lows, triumphs and disasters, over the last one-hundred-and-twenty years. But more than that, the book also draws on the author's unique insight during his twenty-five years as Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. It reveals the real story of all the laureates of that period - some of them among the most controversial in the history of the prize (Gorbachev, Arafat, Peres and Rabin, Mandela and De Klerk, Obama, and Liu Xiaobo) - and exactly why they came to receive the prize. Despite all that has been written about the Nobel Peace Prize, this is the first-ever account written by a prominent insider in the Nobel system.

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Call Number:	AS911.N9 L86 2019
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