Ambassador Book AwardAmerican Studies

Given by English-Speaking Union of the United States

27 Works 0 Books
Awarded by the English-Speaking Union of the United States
The ESU Ambassador Book Awards (ABA) recognize important literary works that contribute to the understanding and interpretation of show more American life and culture. ABA winners become 'literary ambassadors' providing people around the world with an important window on America's past and present in the best contemporary English.
Awards have been made since 1986 in a variety of categorie
Award website show less
Stages:
All, Winner (115), Shortlist (1)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2011 (1), 2010 (2), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (2), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (2)

Winner 26

WorkYear
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot2011
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein2010
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War by James Mann2010
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey2009
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit2008
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan2007
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff2006
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer2005
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 by David Maraniss2004
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton2003
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter2002
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick2001
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy2000
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball1999
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America by Robert Hughes1998
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose1997
Moving Violations by John Hockenberry1996
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South by John Egerton1995
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills1993
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 by Michael R. Beschloss1992
A New York Life: Of Friends and Others by Brendan Gill1991
Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder1990
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan1989
Miami by Joan Didion1988
Cities on a Hill: A Brilliant Exploration of Visionary Communities Remaking the American Dream by Frances FitzGerald1987
The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.1987

Shortlist 1

WorkYear
Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt by Michael J. Ybarra2005

Descriptions

Awarded by the English-Speaking Union of the United States
The ESU Ambassador Book Awards (ABA) recognize important literary works that contribute to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. ABA winners become 'literary ambassadors' providing people around the world with an important window on America's past and present in the best contemporary English.
Awards have been made since 1986 in a variety of categorie
Award website (English, Member-written)
discontinued (Russian, Member-written)

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