God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America awarded Airey Neave Book Prize

Originally published by Airey Neave Trust via their LinkedIn page on 26 March 2025

The Airey Neave Trust is pleased to announce the winner of the fifth Airey Neave Book Prize is God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware (Columbia University Press, 2024). The runner up was Terrorist Minds by John Horgan (Columbia University Press, 2023).

Also shortlisted for the prize were Going Mainstream: How Extremists Are Taking Over by Dr Julia Ebner (Bonnier, 2023) and Doctor, Teacher, Terrorist: The Life and Legacy of Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri by Sajjan Gohel (Oxford University Press, 2024).

The prize is made possible by the generous support of Pool Re, the government-backed insurer of last resort for terrorism risk. It is awarded to honour the work of non-fiction which the judging panel considers to have made the most significant, original, relevant, and practically valuable contribution to the understanding of terrorism.

This year’s winner was announced at a reception in London by Sir David Omand, former Director of GCHQ, a judge of this year’s prize and a previous winner himself. He said, “The panel was clear that this book is an outstanding example of readable scholarship on a topic that should concern us deeply. Bruce and Jacob are worthy winners, and are to be congratulated not just for the book but for the courage to write the book.”

The other judges were Ruby Shrimpton, Dr Tim Wilson, Sir David Veness, and Sebastian Neave.

The sixth Airey Neave Book Prize will be held in 2026.