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 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.


Author: Geir Lundestad
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198841876

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 8

About the Author

Geir Lundestad was the Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 1990-2014 and Adjunct Professor of International History, University of Oslo from 1991-2014.