Finalists have been named for the $15,000 Lionel Gelber Prize, which celebrates the best nonfiction books on foreign affairs. The winner of the prize, which was founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber, will be announced February 27 and receive the award, as well as deliver the annual Lionel Gelber Prize free public lecture, March 15 in Toronto. The 2012 shortlisted titles are:
* A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman (Random House)
* Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Frederick Kempe (Putnam)
* Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
* George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis (Penguin)
* On China by Henry Kissinger (Penguin)
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