Congratulations to the following Random House authors who have been selected as finalists for the 2016 George Washington Prize: Kathleen DuVal, author of Independence Lost; Flora Fraser, author of The Washingtons; and Robert Middlekauff, author of Washington’s Revolution. Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, and Washington College, the $50,000 George Washington Prize “recognizes the year’s best works on the nation’s founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of American history.” The winner will be chosen in April and all seven finalists will be honored at a black tie awards dinner hosted by Mount Vernon on May 25th.
2016 George Washington Prize Finalists Announced
By Tim Cheng | February 17 2016 | Humanities & Social Sciences
George and Martha: Partners in Friendship and Love
978-0-307-47443-8
Winner of the 2016 George Washington Prize
$20.00 US
Oct 18, 2016
Paperback
496 Pages
Anchor
The Making of America's First Leader
978-1-101-87239-0
Finalist for the 2016 George Washington Prize
$17.00 US
Feb 09, 2016
Paperback
400 Pages
Vintage
Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
978-0-8129-8120-9
A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
$19.00 US
Apr 12, 2016
Paperback
464 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
- History > Period History: U.S. > American Revolution (1754-1783)
- History > Period History: U.S. > Colonial American History (1492 - 1776)
- History > Race and Gender Studies > History of Native Americans
- History > Survey Courses > U.S. History Survey – Colonial to 1865
Tags: Flora Fraser, George Washington Prize, Independence Lost, Kathleen DuVal, Robert Middlekauff, Washington's Revolution, Random House, Knopf Doubleday
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