Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Dispatches by Michael Herr (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter (1983)
• Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans by Wallace Terry (1984)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Truman by David McCullough (Biography, 1999)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (The Bedford Series in History and Cu by Frederick Douglass (Biography, 1999)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Longitude by Dava Sobel (Non-fiction, 1999)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Social Sciences, 2004)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans by Wallace Terry ( War: Conflict and Consequences, 2002)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee

• Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey (1995)

Albert B. Corey Prize

• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American by Richard White (1992)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz (1984)
• That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context) by Peter Novick (1989)
• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American by Richard White (1992)
• William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (1996)
• The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon (2000)
• Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 by Mary A. Renda (2002)

Ambassador Book Award

• The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger (American Studies, 1987)
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Biography, 1998)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War by Robert L. Beisner (Silver medal, 2007)

Bancroft Prize

• Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History by Robert E. Sherwood (1949)
• John Adams [2 volumes] by Page Smith (1963)
• The United States and the Origins of the Cold War by John Gaddis (1973)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1989)
• Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 by Lizabeth Cohen (1991)
• A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) by Melvyn Leffler (1993)
• The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 by Stanley Elkins (1994)
• William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (1996)
• The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations by Walter Lafeber (1998)
• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin (1999)
• The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore (1999)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (2000)
• The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon (2000)
• The Rise of American Democracy Jefferson to Lincoln by Wilentz Sean (2006)

Berkshire Conference First Book Prize

• The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore (1998)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2002)

British Book Award

• My Life by Bill Clinton (Biography of the Year, 2005)
• Longitude by Dava Sobel (Book of the Year, 1997)

Carl Sandburg Award

• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (2003)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• John Adams [2 volumes] by Page Smith (Nonfiction, Gold, 1962)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
• The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash (Nonfiction, Silver, 1979)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower
• Orientalism (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edward W. Said

Cox Book Prize

• The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 by Stanley Elkins (1995)
• The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (Omohundro Institute of Early Ame by Saul Cornell (2001)

Douglas Dillon Book Award

• Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War by Robert L. Beisner (2007)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2002)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon (1984)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1989)
• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American by Richard White (1992)
• Truman by David McCullough (1993)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (Omohundro Institute of by Woody Holton (2000)

Frederick Douglass Prize

• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin (First Prize, 1999)

Frederick Jackson Turner Award

• Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz (1985)
• Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey (1995)
• Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (1997)

George Louis Beer Prize

• The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years by Vojtech Mastny (1997)
• Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age by Daniel T. Rodgers (1999)
• A Constructed Peace by Marc Trachtenberg (2000)

Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award

• Longitude by Dava Sobel

Harry Chapin Media Award

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Book, 2001)

J. David Greenstone Prize

• The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton by Stephen Skowronek (1994)

James A. Rawley Prize

• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American by Richard White (1992)
• Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (1997)

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History

• Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (1993)
• Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Laura Wexler (2001)

John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1999)

Kiriyama Prize Finalist

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (Nonfiction, 1999)

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1999)

La Cultura del Mare

• Longitude by Dava Sobel

Lambda Literary Award

• Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey (Gay Men's Studies, 1994)

Le Prix Faubert du Coton, France

• Longitude by Dava Sobel

Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize

• Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (1993)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• Truman by David McCullough (1992)

Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society

• The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine by William E. Nelson (1989)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Theodore Rex (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Edmund Morris (Biography, 2001)
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (Biography, 2002)
• Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger (Current Interest, 1994)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (History, 1988)
• The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann (History, 1991)
• Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey (History, 1994)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (History, 1999)

Mark Lynton History Prize

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (2000)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

• The guns of August by Barbara Tuchman (16)
• The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it by Richard Hofstadter (93)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Reader's List

• Longitude by Dava Sobel (26)
• Orientalism (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edward W. Said (76)

National Book Award

• Henry Kissinger The White House Years by Henry Kissinger (History (Hardcover), 1980)
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Nonfiction, 1997)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (Nonfiction, 1999)
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (Nonfiction, 2002)

National Book Award finalist

• Tumultuous Years The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1945 by Robert J. Donovan (Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover), 1983)
• The Making of a President 1964 by Theodore H. White (History and Biography, 1966)
• Year of Decisions: Memoirs By Harry S Truman Volume One by Harry S Truman (Nonfiction, 1956)
• John Adams [2 volumes] by Page Smith (Nonfiction, 1963)
• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower (Nonfiction, 1986)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Truman by David McCullough (Nonfiction, 1992)
• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (In by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (Nonfiction, 2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Years Of Lyndon Johnson - Means Of Ascent by Robert A. Caro (Biography, 1990)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis (Biography/Autobiography, 1997)
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
• Orientalism (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edward W. Said (Criticism, 1978)
• Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag (Criticism, 2003)
• Dispatches by Michael Herr (General Nonfiction, 1977)
• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower (General Nonfiction, 1986)
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (General Nonfiction, 1988)
• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin (General Nonfiction, 1998)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (General Nonfiction, 1999)

New England Historical Association Book Award

• The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore (1998)
• Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) by Lisa McGirr (2000)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Dispatches by Michael Herr (1977)
• Sideshow by William shawcross (1979)
• Henry Kissinger The White House Years by Henry Kissinger (1979)
• Years of Upheaval by Henry A. Kissinger (1982)
• Tumultuous Years The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1945 by Robert J. Donovan (1982)

New York Times bestseller

• CHINA TO ME: A PARTIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY. by Emily. Hahn (General, 1944)
• Speaking Frankly by James F Byrnes (General, 1947)
• American Diplomacy, 1900-1950 by George F. Kennan (General, 1951)
• Year of Decisions: Memoirs By Harry S Truman Volume One by Harry S Truman (General, 1955)
• American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968 by Lewis Chester (General, 1969)
• The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969 by Lyndon Baines Johnson (General, 1971)
• Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman (General, 1971)
• Henry Kissinger The White House Years by Henry Kissinger (General, 1979)
• At Dawn We Slept (At Dawn We Slept The Untold Story Of Pearl Harbor) by Gordon W. Prange (General, 1982)
• Years of Upheaval by Henry A. Kissinger (General, 1982)
• Truman by David McCullough (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger (Nonfiction, 1994)
• Longitude by Dava Sobel (Nonfiction, 1995)
• Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris (Nonfiction, 1999)
• Theodore Rex (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Edmund Morris (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Nonfiction, 2001)
• The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael Beschloss (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Nonfiction, 2003)
• My Life by Bill Clinton (Nonfiction, 2004)

NYPL Helen Bernstein Award

• The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann (1991)
• About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton by James Mann (2000)

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