Selected Literary Awards
- 1985 Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library for best non-fiction book of 1984 for the book The Transfer Agreement.
- 2003 Outstanding Book Award: General Nonfiction from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) for the book IBM and the Holocaust.
- 2003 Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Journalism from the ASJA for the article "Final Solutions: How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland," published in The Village Voice.
- 2005 Best World Affairs Book Award from the Great Lakes chapter of the World Affairs Council for Banking on Baghdad.
- 2007 Honorable Mention for General Non-Fiction Books from the ASJA for the book Internal Combustion.
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