2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner
Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
Elizabeth D. Samet
At West Point, Elizabeth Samet reads classic and modern works of literature with America’s future military elite, and in this stirring memoir she chronicles the ways in which war has transformed her relationship to the books she and her ……
2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Shortlist
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam
Tom Bissell
The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
Ronald Brownstein
