Ambassador Book Award for American Studies facts

Date Established:

1987

Presenting Organization:

English-Speaking Union

Category of:

Ambassador Book Award

The Ambassador Book Award is awarded annually by the English Speaking Union. It recognizes important literary works that contribute to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. Winners of the award are considered literary ambassadors who provide, in the best contemporary...

Presenting Organization

English-Speaking Union

Winners:

Year	Award Winner	Winning work
2010	James Mann	The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War
2010	Morris Dickstein	Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
2009	Christopher Benfey	A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
2008	Rebecca Solnit	Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
2007	Timothy Egan	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2006	Stacy Schiff	A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
2005	David Hackett Fischer	Washington's Crossing
2004	David Maraniss	They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
2003	Mary Beth Norton	In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
2002	Diane McWhorter	Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

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Ambassador Book Award for American Studies

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