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July 2008
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Knopf Author Selected as a Finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize

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Chandra Manning, author of What this Cruel War was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War, has been selected by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition as a finalist for the Tenth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African-American experience.

The $25,000 annual award for the year's best non-fiction book on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements is the most generous history prize in its field. The prize winner will be announced following the Douglass Prize Review Committee meeting in September, and the award will be presented at a dinner at the Yale Club of New York on February 19, 2009.

The Frederick Douglass Prize was established in 1999 to stimulate scholarship in the field by honoring outstanding accomplishments.

In Brief
Five Random House titles have made the longlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction: A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Knopf) by Mohammed Hanif, The Northern Clemency (Knopf) by Philip Hensher, Netherland (Pantheon) by Joseph O'Neill, The Enchantress of Florence (Random House) by Salman Rushdie, and A Fraction of the Whole (Spiegel & Grau) by Steve Toltz.
W.H. Auden's Collected Poems (Modern Library) has been selected by the Contemporary Poetry Review as one of the Best Books of 2007, winning in the category of Book of the Year.
To mark its 50th anniversary, Pantheon has issued a new edition of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's masterpiece, The Leopard. Click here to read the New York Times Book Review on this latest edition.

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