5th Annual RFK Book Award (1984-1985)

	Winner: Raymond Bonner Weakness and Deceit: US Policy and El Salvador
	Honorable Mention: David Howard Bain Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines
	Honorable Mention: Joel Williamson The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation

Judges: Kenneth B. Clark, Dr. William A. Emerson, Gloria Emerson, Walter Lord