Most Deserving Nobel Peace Prize Winner?

[ffutures]

When you look at some of the others who've won it, I think Bob Dylan has a pretty good claim!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/arts/music/bob-dylan-nobel-prize-literature.html?_r=0

But what he actually won was the prize for literature...

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[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I really can't remember why they actually chose him, there's nothing I can remember that particularly stands out apart from his WW2 thing.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

He did write an awful lot of books (read that as you will). Read Roy Jenkins biography of him a few years ago. He did a history of WWI, a biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough, and a History of the English Speaking People:

https://archive.org/details/A-History-Of-The-English-Speaking-Peoples-4-volumes

They even did a TV series of that:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071325/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_85

But the Wikipedia entry says he got it as much for his oratory as for his writing.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten the History of the English Speaking People - I suppose sheer quantity has a quality of its own. Or was that Stalin?