The Book Prize Index

The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

Saket Soni

An eye-opening, emotional page-turner that exposes our treatment of immigrants and the fallout from globalization, this astonishing story of 500 foreign workers from India lured here under false pretenses and entrapped in near slavery conditions is told by a visionary labor leader who devised a plan that would ultimately win these men citizenship.

Race & EthnicityRace & Ethnicity · medium confidenceRace & Ethnicity81 signalsLlm Classifier: Race & Ethnicity -> Race & EthnicityKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & CorporationsLabor, Work & Organizing

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction2024WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • America40%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The book argues that immigrants were lured under false pretenses and entrapped in near-slavery conditions, and that a labor leader’s plan can win citizenship.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 46%.