Ambassador Book AwardBiography/Autobiography

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Awarded by the English-Speaking Union of the United States
The ESU Ambassador Book Awards (ABA) recognize important literary works that contribute to the understanding and interpretation of toon meer American life and culture. ABA winners become 'literary ambassadors' providing people around the world with an important window on America's past and present in the best contemporary English.
Awards have been made since 1986 in a variety of categorie
Award website toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (115), Shortlist (1)
Categorieën:
Jaren:
Alle, 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1)

Winner 22

WerkJaar
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century door Alan Brinkley2011
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life door Melvin I. Urofsky2010
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir door Donald Worster2009
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer door Kai Bird2006
de Kooning: An American Master door Mark Stevens2005
Hawthorne: A Life door Brenda Wineapple2004
Jesse James, Last Rebel of the Civil War door T. J. Stiles2003
John Adams : founding father van de Verenigde Staten door David McCullough2002
The Chief: the Life of William Randolph Hearst door David Nasaw2001
Morgan: American Financier door Jean Strouse2000
N. C. Wyeth: A Biography door David Michaelis1999
Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop, Guardians of the American Century door Robert W. Merry1997
Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography door David S. Reynolds1996
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II door Doris Kearns Goodwin1995
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race door David Levering Lewis1994
Archibald MacLeish; an American Life door Scott Donaldson1993
Woodrow Wilson door August Heckscher1992
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance door Ron Chernow1991
De jongen die ik was door Tobias Wolff1990
De geschiedenis van een droom Amerika onder Martin Luther King en de Kennedy's door Taylor Branch1989
Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright door Brendan Gill1988
The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume 1, 1902–1941, I, Too, Sing America door Arnold Rampersad1987

Beschrijvingen

Awarded by the English-Speaking Union of the United States
The ESU Ambassador Book Awards (ABA) recognize important literary works that contribute to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. ABA winners become 'literary ambassadors' providing people around the world with an important window on America's past and present in the best contemporary English.
Awards have been made since 1986 in a variety of categorie
Award website (English, Door lid geschreven)
discontinued (Russian, Door lid geschreven)

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