The World's Most Prestigious Prize

Download or Read eBook The World's Most Prestigious Prize PDF written by Geir Lundestad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The World's Most Prestigious Prize
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9780192579010
ISBN-13 : 0192579010
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Book Synopsis The World's Most Prestigious Prize by : Geir Lundestad

Book excerpt: 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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