Los Angeles Times Book Prize

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerPerilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on TerrorismGeoffrey R. StoneAn 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...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistBeasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers, 1769-1913Richard Steven StreetAmazonHigh Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile CrisisMax FrankelAmazonMasquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental SoldierAlfred F. YoungAmazonThe Coming of the Third Reich: Vol...

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerBury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's SlavesAdam HochschildOffers an account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world....Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistForgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945Christopher Bayly, Tim HarperAmazonPostwar: A History of Europe Since 1945Tony JudtAmazonThe Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to LincolnSean WilentzAmazonThe Third Reich in Power: Volume 2 of The Third Reich SeriesRichard J. EvansAmazon