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1968 Awards

28Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1968 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1968 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1968 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Ideological Origins of the American RevolutionBernard BailynTo the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment," as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressi...Amazon
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1968 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1968 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1968 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerRousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization,Will and Ariel DurantThe Story of Civilization, Volume X: winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the rest of Europe from 1715 to 1789....Amazon
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1968 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1968 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1968 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam StyronThe “magnificent” Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times–bestselling novel about the preacher who led America’s bloodiest slave revolt (The New York Times). The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron’s complex and richly drawn imagining of Nat T...Amazon
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1968 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1968 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1968 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerMemoirsGeorge F. KennanThe American diplomat's reflections of his years of government service provide insight into four decades of U.S. policy...Amazon1968 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistChurchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874–1915Ted MorganAmazon
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1968 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1968 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1968 Nebula - Novel WinnerThe Einstein IntersectionSamuel R. DelanyThe Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover arti...Amazon1968 Nebula - Novel ShortlistChthonPiers AnthonyAmazonLord of LightRoger ZelaznyAmazonThe Eskimo InvasionHayden HowardAmazonThornsRobert SilverbergAmazon
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1968 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1968 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerSelected Poems 1956-68**Leonard CohenTo mark the publication of Leonard Cohens final book, The Flame, McClelland & Stewart is proud to reissue six beautiful editions of Cohens cherished early works of poetry, many of which are back in print for the first time in decades. A freshly packaged ...Amazon
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1968 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

1968 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1968 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerLord of LightRoger ZelaznyImagine a distant world where gods walk as men, but wield vast and hidden powers. Here they have made the stage on which they build a subtle pattern of alliance, love, and deadly enmity. Are they truly immortal? Who are these gods who rule the destiny of a...Amazon1968 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistChthonPiers AnthonyAmazonThe Butterfly KidChester AndersonAmazonThe Einstein IntersectionSamuel R. DelanyAmazonThornsRobert SilverbergAmazon
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1968 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1968 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerCocksureMordecai RichlerIn the swinging culture of sixties’ London, Canadian Mortimer Griffin is a beleaguered editor adrift in a sea of hypocrisy and deceit. Alone in a world where nobody shares his values but everyone wants the same things, Mortimer must navigate the currents o...AmazonDance of the Happy ShadesAlice MunroFifteen stories about life in rural Ontario deal with adolescence, loneliness, broken hearts, an abandoned wife, family relations, blind dates, and an aspiring writer...Amazon
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