James H. Bernstein, Charlie Savage, Helen Bernstein Fealy, and Kathryn Gandal

Last night, the New York Public Library presented its annual Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism to Boston Globe correspondent Charlie Savage, the author of Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy. The $15,000 prize is awarded annually to a journalist who "brings clarity and public attention to issues, events, or policies" through book-length reporting, and was established by Joseph and Helen Bernstein twenty years ago as part of a bequest to the library's periodical collection.

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