2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES This is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of ‘…
2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Shortlist

At Canaan’s Edge: Volume 3 of America in the King Years, 1965-68
Taylor Branch

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Nathaniel Philbrick

The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
John Tayman
