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The winning book in 2007, Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, was picked from this dazzling list of six:
THE SHORTLIST
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MURDER IN AMSTERDAM
By Ian Buruma (Atlantic Books)
The story of the murder of controversial Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, killed by a young Muslim who objected to one of his works.
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IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Bloomsbury)
Hair-raising portrait of the first year of US-led coalition rule in post-Saddam Iraq, centring on the base of operations known as the Green Zone.
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HAVING IT SO GOOD: BRITAIN IN THE FIFTIES
By Peter Hennessey (Allen Lane)
Account of Britain's emergence from the shadow of war and rationing into a period of growing affluence - but declining influence.
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DAUGHTER OF THE DESERT
By Georgina Howell (Pan Macmillan)
Biography of the remarkable Gertrude Bell - archaeologist, Arabist, spy, linguist, author, poet, photographer and mountaineer.
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BRAINWASH
By Dominic Streatfeild (Hodder and Stoughton)
The story of the world's most secret psychological procedure, from its origins in the Cold War to its part in today's 'war on terror'.
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THE VERNEYS
By Adrian Tinniswood (Jonathan Cape)
Based on the near-miraculous survival of tens of thousands of Verney family letters in an attic, this is an intimate portrait of 17th century English life.
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The BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize is open to the authors of all non-fiction books published in the UK, regardless of nationality.
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 Samuel Johnson Prize Homepage
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