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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerDisappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth CenturyO.B. Hardison, Jr.Offers a discursive account of modern man's progressive separation from nature and its impact on science and technology, art, music, history, and language...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistDisturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel HuizdalaVaclav Havel, Paul WilsonAmazonMy Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His ConscienceRian MalanAmazonThe Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966Rick AtkinsonAmazonThe Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan AftermathKevin PhillipsAmazon

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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerLantern Slides: StoriesEdna O'BrienWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction “Superb...[Lantern Slides] continues the quest for origin and explanation that has preoccupied O’Brien...Her stories unearth the primeval feelings buried just below the surface of nostalgia, using memo...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBaotownAnyi Wang, Martha AveryAmazonFriend of My YouthAlice MunroAmazonOrdinary Love and Good Will: Two NovellasJane SmileyAmazonReaching Tin RiverThea AstleyAmazon

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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Quest For El CidRichard FletcherRodrigo Díaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as this book reveals, there are many contradictions between el...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistA Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle EastDavid FromkinAmazonAwash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American PeopleJon ButlerAmazonItaly and its MonarchyDenis Mack SmithAmazonThe Search for Modern ChinaJonathan D. SpenceAmazon

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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Color of Mesabi Bones: Poems and Prose PoemsJohn CaddyJohn Caddy is a native of the Mesabi Range, a string of iron-ore mining towns in Minnesota. He uses poetry to express his bittersweet feelings for people and the harsh reality of place....Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistGoing Back to the RiverMarilyn HackerAmazonGrace Notes: PoemsRita DoveAmazonLeaving Another Kingdom: Selected PoemsGerald SternAmazonWhat Light There IsEamon GrennanAmazon

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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerPatenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk VacineJane S. SmithCaptures the intensity that characterized the race to 'conquer' the dreaded, crippling disease of polio. Smith volunteered to try the experimental Salk vaccine; this is her personal essay on the interplay among medicine, politics, psychology, culture & col...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistDiscovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific KnowledgeRobert Scott Root-BernsteinAmazonGreen Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of CivilizationChristopher ManesAmazonSonoran Desert SummerJohn AlcockAmazonThe Control of NatureJohn McPheeAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerRighteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952Tom H. Watkins...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Life of Picasso: Volume 1. The Prodigy, 1881-1906John RichardsonAmazonBenedict Arnold: Patriot and TraitorWillard Sterne RandallAmazonO'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American RomanceBenita EislerAmazonRoad Song: A MemoirNatalie KuszAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerWhy Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic ProcessE.J. DionneAnalyzes apathy in American politics, arguing that name-calling and rhetoric have clouded the issues...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistThe Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In AmericaShelby SteeleAmazonThe Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & PowerDaniel YerginAmazonThe Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaNicholas LemannAmazonThe United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of OfficeAlan EhrenhaltAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerWhite PeopleAllan GurganusA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book In eleven glorious stories, Allan Gurganus, author of the highly acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, gives heart-breaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires, and triumphs o...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Woman's StoryAnnie ErnauxAmazonAge of Iron: A NovelJ.M. CoetzeeAmazonThe AcaciaClaude SimonAmazonWoman Hollering Creek and Other StoriesSandra CisnerosAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerPangs of LoveDavid Wong LouieCultures as well as generations clash in the funny and heartbreaking short stories that mark David Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Ploughshares Award, Pangs of Love explores the bizarre contradictions inherent in assimilation....Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistHow to Make an American Quilt: A NovelWhitney OttoAmazonTen Seconds: A NovelLouis EdwardsAmazonThe Book of Saints: A NovelNino RicciAmazonWartime LiesLouis BegleyAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaNicholas LemannA New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policy...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistBehind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent EraKevin BrownlowAmazonSoulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Philip A. KuhnAmazonStalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941Robert C. TuckerAmazonThe Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & PowerDaniel YerginAmazon