Press Release | The Academy Announces 2026 Douglas Dillon Book Award Winner
The American Academy of Diplomacy is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2026 Douglas Dillon Book Award for a Book of Distinction on the Practice of American Diplomacy is Kennedy’s Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon Murder, and America’s Descent into Vietnam by Jack Cheevers, published by Simon & Schuster. The committee is granting a Special Citation to Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID by Nicholas Enrich, published by Simon & Schuster.
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