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2010 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award
The Peasant Prince, Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
by Alex Storozynski (pub by Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin’s Press imprint)
Honorable Mention
An Artist in Treason, The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson
by Andro Linklater (pub. Walker Publishing)
Special Recognition
George Washington at Headquarters, Dobbs Ferry
by Mary Donovan (IUniverse Publishing)
The awards will be presented at the April Family Night Stated Meeting that commemorates the Battles of Lexington and Concord. It will be held on Monday, April 26, 2010 at 6:30 PM at Fraunces Tavern Museum and Fraunces Tavern Restaurant.
Mr. Storozynski will be the guest speaker that evening. Mr. Storozynski is also scheduled to give a lecture about his book at Fraunces Tavern Museum in Sept 2010.
2009 Book Award: Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners during the Revolutionary War
By Dr. Edwin G. Burrows (Basic Books)
- Honorable Mention: If by Sea: The Forging of the American Navy- from the
Revolution to the War of 1812, George C. Daughan (Basic Books)
- Special Recognition: Taxation in Colonial America, Alvin Rabushka
(Princeton University Press)
- Special Recognition: John Adams, Miniseries, HBO Films/Playtone Production
2008 Book Award: American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, by Joseph Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Honorable Mention: Taming Democracy, “The People”, the Founders and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution, Terry Bouton (Oxford University Press)
2007 Book Award: Samuel Adams, Father of the American Revolution, by Mark Puls (Palgrave MacMillan)
2006 Book Award: Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge, Thomas Fleming (Smithsonian Books Imprint/Harper Collins Publishers)
2005 Book Award: Washington's
Crossing, By David Hackett Fisher (Oxford University Press)
- Honorable Mention: Alexander Hamilton,
By Ron Chernow (Penguin Press)
2004 Book Award: A
Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic,
John Ferling (Oxford University Press)
- Honorable Mention: Gouverneur Morris: An
Independent Life, William Howard Adams (Yale University
Press)
- Honorable Mention: Benjamin Franklin: An
American Life, Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
- Honorable Mention: Thomas Jefferson,
Richard B. Bernstein (Oxford University Press)
2003 Book Award: Lafayette,
Harlow Giles Unger (John Wiley & Sons)
- Special Recognition for Juvenile Literature:The
signers, 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence,
Dennis Brindell Fradin (Walker & Co.)
2002 Book Award: John
Adams, David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
- Special Recognition for a Compilation:The
American Revolution: Writings from the
War of Independence, edited by John Rhodehamel (Library
of America)
2001 Book Award: Founding
Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation, Joseph Ellis (Knopf)
- Honorable Mention: The First American,
The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, H.W. Brands (Doubleday)
2000 Book Award: Forced
Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American
Revolution in Virginia,
Woody Holton (University of North Carolina Press)
- Special Recognition for Archaeology: The
Great Warpath: British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point,
David Starbuck (University Press of New England)
- Special Recognition for Juvenile Literature: The
World Turned Upside Down: George Washington and the Battle
of Yorktown, Richard Ferrie (Holiday House)
1999 Book Award: In Irons: Britain's
Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy, Richard
Buel, Jr. (Yale Press)
- Honorable Mention: A Devil of a Whipping:
The Battle of Cowpens, Lawrence Babits (University of North
Carolina Press)
1998 Book Award: Saratoga: Turning
Point of America's Revolutionary War, Richard M. Ketchum
(Henry Holt)
- Special Recognition for a Companion Volume: Liberty!
The American Revolution, Thomas Fleming, companion
to the PBS series of the same name (Viking Penguin)
- Special Recognition to a Compilation: George
Washington: Writings, Edited by John Rhodehamel (Literary
Classics of the US).
- Special Recognition for Juvenile Literature: Betsy
Ross: Patriot of Philadelphia, Judith St. George (Books
for Young Readers, Henry Holt)
1997 Book Award: Original Meanings:
Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution,
Jack N. Rakove (Knopf).
- Honorable Mention: Benjamin Lincoln and
the American Revolution, David B. Mattern (University of
South Carolina Press).
- Special Recognition for Juvenile Literature: A
Young Patriot, The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy,
Jim Murphy (Clarion Books).
1996 Book Award: Tom Paine: A
Political Life, John Keane (Little Brown)
1995 Book Award: The
Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome and the American Enlightenment,
Carl J. Richard (Harvard University Press)
- Special Recognition for its unique contribution to the study
of American History: The American Revolution
Documentary: American Spirit, Birth of the Republic, Conflict
Ignites, produced by Greystone Communications and shown
on Arts & Entertainment Network.
1994 Book Award: To Make a Nation:
The Rediscovery of American Federalism,
Samuel H. Beer (Harvard University Press).
- Honorable Mention: George Clinton: Yeoman
Politician of the New Republic, John P. Kaminski (Madison
House) and
The Age of Federalism, Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick (Oxford
University Press)
- Special Recognition for its unique contribution to the study
of American history: Money of the American
Colonies and Confederation: A Numismatic, Economic and Historical
Correlation, Philip L. Mossman (The American Numismatic
Society).
1993 Book Award: The Bill of
Rights and the States and the companion piece: The
Constitution and the States, edited by
Patrick T. Conley and John P. Kaminski (Madison House)
1992 Book Award: The
Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood (Knopf)
- Special Recognition for a Museum Catalogue: Ralph
Earl: The Face of the Young Republic, Elizabeth M. Kornhauser
(Yale University Press)
1991 Book Award: Benedict
Arnold, Patriot and Traitor, Willard Sterne Randall (William
Morrow)
1990 Book Award: Major
General Adam Stephen and the Cause of American Liberty, Harry
M. Ward (University of Virginia Press)
- Honorable Mention: Chaining the Hudson,
the Fight for the River in the American Revolution, Lincoln
Diamant
(Carol Publishing Group)
- Special Recognition for a Museum Catalogue: The
First Federal Congress 1789-1791, Margaret S.C. Christman
(Smithsonian Institute Press)
1989 Book Award: Inventing the
People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in
England and America, Edmund S. Morgan
(W.W. Norton)
- Charles Scott and the 'Spirit of '76',
Harry M. Ward (University Press of Virginia).
- Special Recognition for a Museum Catalogue: Paul Revere - Artisan,
Businessman, and Patriot: The Man Behind
the Myth, The Paul Revere Memorial Association (Published
by the Association)
1988 Book Award: The
Forging of the Union: 1781-1789, Richard B. Morris (Harper
& Row)
- Honorable Mention: Arms, Country and Class: The
Philadelphia Militia and the 'Lower Sort' During the American
Revolution, Steven Rosswurm (Rutgers University Press)
1987 Book Award:
Franklin of Philadelphia, Esmond Wright (Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press)
- Honorable Mention: A Son of Thunder: Patrick
Henry and the American Republic, Henry Mayer (Franklin
Watts)
1983-1986 No award given
1982 Book Award: The
Glorious Cause, Robert Middlekauff (Oxford University Press)
1981 Book Award: Jefferson
and His Time, Dumas Malone (Little, Brown)
1980 Book Award: A
Revolutionary People at War, Charles Royster (University
of North Carolina Press)
1979 Book Award: Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography, Forest McDonald (W.W. Norton)
1978 Book Award: Inventing
America - Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, Gary Wills
(Doubleday)
1977 Book Award: The
Empire of Reason, Henry Steele Commager (Doubleday)
1976 Book Award: Atlas
of Early American History, The Revolutionary Era, Lester
J. Capon, et al., eds. (Princeton
University Press)
- Honorable Mention: In Defense of the Public
Liberty, Samuel B. Griffith (Doubleday)
1975 Book Award: Origins
of the American Revolution, 1759-1766 and Growth
of the American Revolution, 1766-1775,
Bernard Knollenberg (Free Press)
1974 Book Award: Political
Parties Before the Constitution, Jackson Turner Main (University
of North Carolina Press)
1973 Book Award: George
Washignton, 4 vols., James Thomas Flexner (Little Brown)
- Honorable Mention: From Resistance to Revolution,
Pauline Maier (Knopf)
- Honorable Mention: The National Anthem,
a film by Saxton Graphics.
1972 Book Award: The
Boston Massacre, Hiller B. Zobel (W.W. Norton)
The award is presented each April to a book published during the
previous year. To submit a book for consideration,
mail two copies to:
Book Award Committee Sons of the Revolution in the State
of New York 54 Pearl Street New York NY 10004
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