Lengel Selected as Washington Prize Finalist
We're pleased to announce that Edward Lengel has been selected as one of the three finalists for the 2006 George Washington Book Prize for his book General George Washington: A Military Life. At $50,000 the Prize is the largest award for early American history in the United States.
Click here for more information on General George Washington: A Military Life.
Fighting for America to be featured on The History Channel
Fighting for America: Black Soldiers —the Unsung Heroes of World War II (Presidio Press) will be prominently featured on The History Channel's upcoming "Honor Deferred", a special honoring seven African American Medal of Honor Winners from World War II. The program will air Saturday, February 11th.
Finalists announced for 2005
National Book Critics Circle Awards
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| Eleven Random House, Inc. titles have been named finalists for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Awards. The National Book Critics Circle was founded in 1974 and consists of approximately 700 active book reviewers. The winners will be announced at a Manhattan ceremony on Friday, March 3rd. |
Fiction:
• The March by E.L. Doctorow
• Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
General Nonfiction:
• The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk
• Eating Stone by Ellen Meloy
Biography:
• American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
• Lee Miller by Carolyn Burke
Autobiography:
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
Criticism:
• Still Looking by John Updike
Poetry:
• Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
Click
here for more information on the National Book Critics
Circle Awards
American Library Association selects its Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
The
American Library Association has chosen the following Random
House, Inc. titles for its Choice
Outstanding Academic Titles of 2005. This prestigious
list reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice
and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic
library community:
and
Martin
Sherwin
• The
Archives of the Universe by Marcia
Bartusiak
• American
Prometheus by Kai
Bird
•
Electric
Universe by David
Bodanis
•
K.
by Roberto
Calasso
• The
Memoirs of Catherine the Great translated
by Markus
Cruse and Hilde
Hoogenboom
•
Israel
on the Appomattox by Melvin
Patrick Ely
•
Armageddon
by Max
Hastings
• Exuberance
by Kay
Redfield Jamison
•
General
George Washington by Edward
Lengel
• Power,
Terror, Peace, and War by Walter
Russell Mead
• Somerset
Maugham by Jeffrey
Meyers
•
The
Road to Reality by Roger
Penrose
•
Stalking
the Riemann Hypothesis by Dan
Rockmore
• Rivers
of Gold by Hugh
Thomas
•
The
Whole Equation by David
Thomson
•
Malraux
by Olivier
Todd
• The
Architecture and Design of Man and Woman by
Alexander
Tsiaras and Barry
Werth
Click here for more information on the American Library Association
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