Los_Angeles_Times_Book_Prize_for_History

<i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize for History

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History

Annual literary prize

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

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Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1980	Ronald Steel	Walter Lippmann and the American Century	Winner	^[1]
1981	Ray Allen Billington	Land of Savagery/Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century	Winner	^[2]
1982	Jonathan D. Spence	The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980	Winner	^[3]
1983	Fernand Braudel	The Wheels of Commerce	Winner	^[4]
1984	Robert Darnton	The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History	Winner	^[5]
1985	Evan S. Connell	Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn	Winner	^[6]
1986	Geoffrey Hosking	The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within	Winner	^[7]
1987	Robert Jay Lifton	The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide	Winner	^[8]
1988	Eric Foner	Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877	Winner	^[9]
1989	Neal Gabler	An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood	Winner	^[10]
1990	Richard Fletcher	The Quest for El Cid	Winner	^[11]
	David Fromkin	A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East	Finalist	^[11]
	Jon Butler	Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
	Denis Mack Smith	Italy and its Monarchy
	Jonathan D. Spence	The Search for Modern China
1991	Nicholas Lemann	The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America	Winner	^[12]
	Kevin Brownlow	Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era	Finalist	^[12]
	Philip A. Kuhn	Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
	Robert C. Tucker	Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941
	Daniel Yergin	The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
1992	Alexander Stille	Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism	Winner	^[13]
	Noel Mostert	Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa’s Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People	Finalist	^[13]
	Robert P. Newman	Owen Lattimore and the “Loss” of China
	Greg Mitchell	The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics
	Ramón Eduardo Ruiz	Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People
1993	Anthony Grafton	New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery	Winner	^[14]
	Dan Morgan	Rising in the West: The True Story of an “Okie” family in Search of the American Dream	Finalist	^[14]
	Alain Peyrefitte and Jon Rothschild	The Immobile Empire
	James C. Cobb	The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity
	Jane Hamilton-Merritt	Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992
1994	George Chauncey	Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940	Winner	^[15]
	Leonard Dinnerstein	Anti-Semitism in America	Finalist	^[15]
	George Sanchez	Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
	John Boswell	Marriage of Likeness: Same-sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe
	Elizabeth Wayland Barber	Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
1995	Jackson Lears	Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America	Winner	^[16]
	Robert Jensen	Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Europe	Finalist	^[16]
	Ian Hacking	Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
	John Egerton	Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
	David Holloway	Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
1996	Neal Ascherson	Black Sea	Winner	^[17]
	Richard Kluger	Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris	Finalist	^[17]
	Kevin Starr	Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California
	Norman Davies	Europe: A History
	Lawrence H. Keeley	War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
	Alan Taylor	William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
1997	Orlando Figes	A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution	Winner	^[18]
	Serge Schmemann	Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village	Finalist	^[18]
	Peter N. Stearns	Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West
	Saul Friedländer	Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1. The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939
	Geoffrey Moorhouse	Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
1998	Roy Porter	The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity	Winner	^[19]
	Kathy Peiss	Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture	Finalist	^[20]
	Ira Berlin	Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
	Philip D. Morgan	Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
	Nancy Tomes	The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
1999	John W. Dower	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II	Winner	^[19]
	David Haward Bain	Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroad	Finalist	^[21]
	David M. Kennedy	Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
	John Keegan	The First World War
	Peter Novick	The Holocaust in American Life
2000	Alice Kaplan	The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach	Winner	^[19]
	Nathaniel Philbrick	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex	Finalist	^[22]
	Tim Judah	Kosovo: War and Revenge
	Shareen Blair Brysac	Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
	Alexander Keyssar	The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
2001	Rick Perlstein	Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus	Winner	^[19]
	Julian Jackson	France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944	Finalist	^[23]
	Louis Menand	The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
	G.E. Bentley Jr.	The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake
	Garry Wills	Venice: Lion City
2002	Michael B. Oren	Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East	Winner	^[19]
	Philip Dray	At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America	Finalist	^[24]
	Gregg Herken	Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller
	Mary Beth Norton	In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
	Robert W. Harms	The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
2003	Henry Wiencek	An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America	Winner	^[25]
	Anne Applebaum	Gulag: A History	Finalist	^[25]
	Louis Crompton	Homosexuality and Civilization
	David Maraniss	They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
	Timothy Tackett	When the King Took Flight
2004	Geoffrey R. Stone	Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism	Winner	^[26]
	Richard Steven Street	Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers, 1769-1913	Finalist	^[26]
	Max Frankel	High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
	Alfred F. Young	Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier
	Richard J. Evans	The Coming of the Third Reich: Volume 1 of The Third Reich Series
2005	Adam Hochschild	Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves	Winner	^[27]
	Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper	Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945	Finalist	^[28]
	Tony Judt	Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
	Sean Wilentz	The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
	Richard J. Evans	The Third Reich in Power: Volume 2 of The Third Reich Series
2006	Lawrence Wright	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11	Winner	^[29]^[30]
	Taylor Branch	At Canaan’s Edge: Volume 3 of America in the King Years, 1965-68	Finalist	^[31]
	Nathaniel Philbrick	Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
	John Tayman	The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
	Niall Ferguson	The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
2007	Tim Weiner	Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA	Winner	^[32]
	Margaret MacMillan	Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World	Finalist	^[32]
	David A. Bell	The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
	Andrew Nagorski	The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War II
	Lynne Olson	Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
2008	Mark Mazower	Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe	Winner	^[33]^[34]
	Rick Wartzman	Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath	Finalist	^[35]
	Michael Dobbs	One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
	Thomas J. Sugrue	Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
	Drew Gilpin Faust	This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
2009	Kevin Starr	Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963	Winner	^[36]
	Gordon S. Wood	Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815	Finalist	^[37]
	Amy Louise Wood	Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
	Martha A. Sandweiss	Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
	Richard Holmes	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
2010	Thomas Powers	The Killing of Crazy Horse	Winner	^[38]
	John W. Dower	Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq		^[39]
	Susan Dunn	Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party
	Ron Chernow	Washington: A Life
	Steven Solomon	Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
2011	Richard White	Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America	Winner	^[40]
	Adam Goodheart	1861: The Civil War Awakening	Finalist	^[41]
	Rachel Polonsky	Molotov’s Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History
	Javier Cercas with Anne McLean (trans.)	The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination
	Adam Hochschild	To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
2012	Fergus M. Bordewich	America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union	Winner	^[42]^[43]
	Amy S. Greenberg	A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico	Finalist	^[44]
	George Black	Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
	John M. Barry	Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
	Geoffrey Kabaservice	Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
2013	Christopher Clark	The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914	Winner	^[45]
	Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman	FDR and the Jews	Finalist	^[46]
	Doris Kearns Goodwin	The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
	Alan Taylor	The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
	Glenn Frankel	The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
2014	Adam Tooze	The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931	Winner	^[47]^[48]
	Mark Harris	Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War	Finalist	^[49]
	Walter Isaacson	The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
	Judith Flanders	The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London
	Lawrence Wright	Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
2015	Dan Ephron	Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel	Winner	^[50]
	Jonathan M. Bryant	Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope	Finalist	^[50]
	David Maraniss	Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
	Mary Beard	SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
	Mark Molesky	This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
2016	Benjamin Madley	An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873	Winner	^[51]
	Heather Ann Thompson	Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy	Finalist	^[52]
	Adam Hochschild	Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
	Masha Gessen	Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region
	Nancy Isenberg	White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
2017	Dan Egan	The Death and Life of the Great Lakes	Winner	^[53]
	Richard Rothstein	The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America	Finalist	^[53]
	Frances FitzGerald	The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
	Mark Bowden	Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
	Stephen Alford	London’s Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare’s City
2018	Julia Boyd	Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945	Winner	^[54]
2019	Stephanie Jones-Rogers	They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South	Winner	^[55]^[56]
2020	Martha S. Jones	Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All	Winner	^[57]^[58]
	Alice L. Baumgartner	South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War	Finalist	^[59]
	Adam Goodman	The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants
	Walter Johnson	The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
	David Vine	The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State
2020	Ada Ferrer	Cuba: An American History	Winner	^[60]
	Mia Bay	Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance	Finalist	^[60]
	Mae Ngai	The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
	Olivette Otele	African Europeans: An Untold History
	Alaina E. Roberts	I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
2022	Margaret Burnham	By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners	Winner	^[61]
	Hugh Eakin	Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America	Finalist	^[61]
	Kerri K. Greenidge	The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
	Andrew M. Wehrman	The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
	Donald Yacovone	Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of our National Identity
2023	Joya Chatterji	Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century	Winner	^[62]
	Ned Blackhawk	The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History	Finalist	^[62]
	Malcolm Harris	Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
	Blair L.M. Kelley	Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
	Nikki M. Taylor	Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance

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