George Washington Book PrizeWinner

Given by Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

19 Works 15,899 Books 311 Reviews 4.2
Awards an annual $50,000 prize. The George Washington Book Prize recognizes the year’s best books on the nation’s founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad show more public understanding of American history. show less
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All, Winner (19), Finalist (63)
Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1)

Winner 19

WorkYear
First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity by Maurizio Valsania2023
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery by Bruce A. Ragsdale2022
1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton2021
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson2020
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway2019
George Washington: A Life in Books by Kevin J. Hayes2018
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick2017
The Washingtons: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" by Flora Fraser2016
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker2015
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy2014
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior by Stephen Brumwell2013
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff2012
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier2011
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman2010
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed2009
The slave ship. A human history by Marcus Rediker2008
Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye2007
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff2006
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow2005

Descriptions

Awards an annual $50,000 prize. The George Washington Book Prize recognizes the year’s best books on the nation’s founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of American history. (English, Member-written)
The award—which is co-sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington's Mount Vernon—recognizes the past year's best books on the nation's founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of American history. (English, Member-written)

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