Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: The World's Most Prestigious Prize The Inside Story Of The Nobel Peace Prize
Author(s): Lundestad Geir (Former Director Of The Norwegian Nobel Institute Former Director Of The Norwegian Nobel Institute)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198841876
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 11/1/2019
Category: History: Specific Events & Topics