2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
Kevin Starr
A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr’s acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar p…
2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Shortlist
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Gordon S. Wood
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
Amy Louise Wood
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Martha A. Sandweiss
