2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism
Geoffrey R. Stone
An investigation into how free speech and other civil liberties have been compromised in America by war in six historical periods describes how presidents, Supreme Court justices, and resistors contributed to the administration of civil freedoms, in an acc…
2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Shortlist
Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers, 1769-1913
Richard Steven Street
High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Max Frankel
Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier
Alfred F. Young
