LA Times Book PrizeFinalistHistory

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Andere Namen: Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Engels)
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The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980. Eligibility for the prizes requires a book to have its first United States publication between January 1 and December 31 toon meer of any given year. This American publication must be in English; however, English does not have to be the original language of the work. Authors may be of any nationality. They should be alive at the time of their book’s qualifying U.S. publication although eligibility is also extended to significant new translations of the work of deceased writers. Books by current employees of the Los Angeles Times, by current employees of Tribune Company or any of its other affiliates, by currently serving judges of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, or by immediate family members of these groups are not eligible. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (364), Finalist (1,601)
Categorieën:
Alle, Geschiedenis (170)
Jaren:
Alle, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (1), 2019 (4), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (4), 2004 (5), 2003 (6), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (5), 1999 (5), 1998 (5), 1997 (5), 1996 (5), 1995 (5), 1994 (5), 1993 (5), 1992 (5), 1991 (4), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1)
Aangekondigd:
april 19: Winnaar2023 Recent
februari 21: Finalist2023 Recent

Finalist 170

WerkJaar
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century door Joya Chatterji2023
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History door Ned Blackhawk2023
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World door Malcolm Harris2023
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class door Blair LM Kelley Ph. D.2023
Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance door Nikki M. Taylor2023
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners door Margaret A. Burnham2022
Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America door Hugh Eakin2022
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family door Kerri K. Greenidge2022
The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution door Andrew M. Wehrman2022
Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity door Donald Yacovone2022
Cuba: An American History door Ada Ferrer2021
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance door Mia Bay2021
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics door Mae Ngai2021
African Europeans: An Untold History door Olivette Otele2021
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land (America in the Nineteenth Century) door Alaina E. Roberts2021
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All door Martha S. Jones2020
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South door Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers2019
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century door Charles King2019
The Cigarette: A Political History door Sarah Milov2019
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present door David Treuer2019
Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People door Julia Boyd2018
Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion door John Elliott2018
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan door Ruby Lal2018
The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation door Miriam Pawel2018
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution door Priya Satia2018
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes door Dan Egan2017
London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City door Stephen Alford2017
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam door Mark Bowden2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America door Frances FitzGerald2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America door Richard Rothstein2017
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 door Benjamin Madley2016
Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series) door Masha Gessen2016
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 door Adam Hochschild2016
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America door Nancy Isenberg2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy door Heather Ann Thompson2016
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel door Dan Ephron2015
SPQR : een geschiedenis van het Romeinse Rijk door Mary Beard2015
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope door Jonathan M. Bryant2015
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story door David Maraniss2015
This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason door Mark Molesky2015
De zondvloed 1916-1931 het ontstaan van een nieuwe wereldorde door Adam Tooze2014
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London door Judith Flanders2014
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War door Mark Harris2014
De uitvinders hoe een groep hackers, genieën en nerds de digitale revolutie ontketende door Walter Isaacson2014
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp door Lawrence Wright2014
Slaapwandelaars door Christopher Clark2013
FDR and the Jews door Richard Breitman2013
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend door Glenn Frankel2013
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism door Doris Kearns Goodwin2013
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 door Alan Taylor2013
America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union door Fergus M. Bordewich2012
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty door John M. Barry2012
Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone door George Black2012
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico door Amy S. Greenberg2012
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party door Geoffrey Kabaservice2012
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America door Richard White2011
Anatomie van een moment door Javier Cercas2011
1861: The Civil War Awakening door Adam Goodheart2011
Verzet en eendracht De grote oorlog 1914-1918 door Adam Hochschild2011
Molotovs toverlantaarn een reis door de Russische geschiedenis door Rachel Polonsky2011
The Killing of Crazy Horse door Thomas Powers2010
Washington: A Life door Ron Chernow2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq door John W. Dower2010
Roosevelt's Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party door Susan Dunn2010
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization door Steven Solomon2010
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (Americans and the California Dream) door Kevin Starr2009
De tijd van verwondering de ontdekking van de moderne wetenschap door Richard Holmes2009
Passing Strange door Martha A. Sandweiss2009
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 door Amy Louise Wood2009
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 door Gordon S. Wood2009
Hitlers wereldrijk de overheersing van Europa door de nazi's door Mark Mazower2008
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War door Michael Dobbs2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) door Drew Gilpin Faust2008
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North door Thomas J. Sugrue2008
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath door Rick Wartzman2008
Een spoor van vernieling de geschiedenis van de CIA door Tim Weiner2007
The First Total War door David A. Bell2007
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World door Margaret MacMillan2007
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II door Andrew Nagorski2007
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England door Lynne Olson2007
De toren van onheil Al-Qaida en de weg naar 11 september door Lawrence Wright2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 door Taylor Branch2006
De grote oorlogen de honderjarige oorlog en de ondergang van het Westen door Niall Ferguson2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War door Nathaniel Philbrick2006
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai door John Tayman2006
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves door Adam Hochschild2005
Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 door Christopher Bayly2005
Na de oorlog een geschiedenis van Europa sinds 1945 door Tony Judt2005
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln door Sean Wilentz2005
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism door Geoffrey R. Stone2004
Het Derde Rijk Deel 1 Opkomst door Richard J. Evans2004
High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis door Max Frankel2004
Beasts of the Fields: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 door Richard Steven Street2004
Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier door Alfred F. Young2004
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America door Henry Wiencek2003
Goelag Een geschiedenis door Anne Applebaum2003
Homosexuality and Civilization door Louis Crompton2003
Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight door Paul Hoffman2003
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 door David Maraniss2003
When the King Took Flight door Timothy Tackett2003
Six Days of War door Michael B. Oren2002
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America door Philip Dray2002
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade door Robert Harms2002
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller door Gregg Herken2002
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 door Mary Beth Norton2002
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus door Rick Perlstein2001
The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake door G. E. Bentley, Jr.2001
France The Dark Years 1940-1944 door Julian Jackson2001
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America door Louis Menand2001
Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire door Garry Wills2001
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach door Alice Kaplan2000
Resisting Hitler. Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra door Shareen Blair Brysac2000
Kosovo: War and Revenge door Tim Judah2000
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States door Alexander Keyssar2000
Het hart van de zee: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex door Nathaniel Philbrick2000
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II door John W. Dower1999
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad door David Haward Bain1999
De Eerste Wereldoorlog 1914-1918 door John Keegan1999
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 door David M. Kennedy1999
The Holocaust in American Life door Peter Novick1999
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present door Roy Porter1998
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America door Ira Berlin1998
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry door Philip D. Morgan1998
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture door Kathy Peiss1998
The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life door Nancy Tomes1998
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 door Orlando Figes1997
Nazi-Duitsland en de joden door Saul Friedländer1997
Sun Dancing door Geoffrey Moorhouse1997
Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village door Serge Schmemann1997
Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West door Peter N. Stearns1997
Zwarte Zee door Neal Ascherson1996
Europe: A History door Norman Davies1996
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage door Lawrence H. Keeley1996
Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California door Kevin Starr1996
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic door Alan Taylor1996
Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America door Jackson Lears1995
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South door John Egerton1995
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory door Ian Hacking1995
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 door David Holloway1995
Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siecle Europe door Robert Jensen1995
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 door George Chauncey1994
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times door Elizabeth Wayland Barber1994
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe door John Boswell1994
Antisemitism in America door Leonard Dinnerstein1994
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 door George J. Sanchez1994
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery door Anthony Grafton1993
The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity door James C. Cobb1993
Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992 door Jane Hamilton-Merritt1993
Rising in the West: the true story of an "Okie" family in search of the American dream door Dan Morgan1993
The Immobile Empire door Alain Peyrefitte1993
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism door Alexander Stille1992
The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics door Greg Mitchell1992
Frontiers : the epic of South Africa's creation and the tragedy of the Xhosa people door Noel Mostert1992
Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China door Robert P. Newman1992
Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People door Ramon Eduardo Ruiz1992
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America door Nicholas Lemann1991
Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era door Kevin Brownlow1991
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 door Philip A. Kuhn1991
Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 door Robert C. Tucker1991
The Quest for El Cid door Richard Fletcher1990
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood door Neal Gabler1989
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 door Eric Foner1988
Nazi-dokters de psychologie van de rassenmoord in het Derde Rijk door Robert Jay Lifton1987
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within, Second Enlarged Edition door Geoffrey A. Hosking1986
Son of the Morning Star door Evan S. Connell1985
De grote kattenslachting door Robert Darnton1984
Civilización material, economía y capitalismo, s. XV-XVIII. (t.2) door Fernand Braudel1983
De poort van de Hemelse Vrede de Chinezen en hun revolutie 1895-1980 door Jonathan D. Spence1982
Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century door Ray Allen Billington1981
Walter Lippmann and the American Century door Ronald Steel1980

Beschrijvingen

The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980. Eligibility for the prizes requires a book to have its first United States publication between January 1 and December 31 of any given year. This American publication must be in English; however, English does not have to be the original language of the work. Authors may be of any nationality. They should be alive at the time of their book’s qualifying U.S. publication although eligibility is also extended to significant new translations of the work of deceased writers. Books by current employees of the Los Angeles Times, by current employees of Tribune Company or any of its other affiliates, by currently serving judges of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, or by immediate family members of these groups are not eligible. (English, Door lid geschreven)
This year’s Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honored outstanding literary achievement in nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. Each winner receives a $1,000 cash award. (English, Door lid geschreven)

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