Description
| Product ID: | 9780198841876 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The World's Most Prestigious Prize |
| Subtitle: | The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| Authors: | Author: Geir Lundestad |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution, History: specific events and topics, History: specific events & topics |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The first-ever account of the world's leading prize written by a prominent insider in the Nobel system. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-09-12 |
