1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
Geoffrey C. Ward
In this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the bri…
1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Shortlist
Means of Ascent: Volume 2 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
Deirdre Bair
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
Patricia O’toole
