2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner

Jefferson Davis, American
William J. Cooper
An engaging portrait of the Southern soldier-statesman who led the Confederacy retraces his evolution from a reluctant supporter of secession to his eventual total embrace of an independent Southern Confederacy….
2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Shortlist

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis

Hitler: Volume 2. 1936-1945 Nemesis
Ian Kershaw

Mao: A Life
Philip Short
