George Washington Book Prize
Washington College has announced three finalists for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize. The finalists were chosen from 78 entries. Each book entered was published last year and focused on early American history.
The three finalists are:
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America’s First Banking Collapse by Jane Kamensky
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Kevin J. Hayes
The winner of the award, and the $50,000 that comes with it, will be announced on May 28 at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens in Virginia.
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Thanks so much for posting this news! I’m the George Washington Book Prize coordinator at the C.V. Starr Center at Washington College, where we administer the prize. If anyone is interested in more information, or in submitting entries for next year’s prize — for the best book on the founding era in American history, c. 1760-1820 — they should call me at 410-810-7165, email me at the above address, or check our our website at starrcenter.washcoll.edu and click on George Washington Book Prize.
Thanks so much!
best,
Joan Smith