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AAS Members Who Have Won A National Book Award

1950

  Ralph L. Rusk, Ralph Waldo Emerson
     

1953

  Bernard A. De Voto, The Course of Empire
     

1954

  Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox
     

1966

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days
     

1967

  Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, Vol. 1: An Interpretation of the Rise of Modern Paganism
     

1969

  Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
     

1972

  Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and The Organized War to Victory
     

1972

  Martin E. Marty, Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
     

1975

  Bernard Bailyn, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
     

1976

  David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
     

1977

  Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
     

1978

  David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
     

1979

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times
     

1979

  Richard Beale Davis, Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763
     

1981

  Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long, The Aftermath of Slavery
     

1982

  David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback
     

1993

  Gore Vidal, United States: Essays, 1952-1992
     

1997

  Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
     

2000

  Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
     

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The National Book Award has been awarded annually since 1950. The National Book Foundation sponsors the awards.
 


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