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Otros Nombres: California Book Award (Inglés), California Book Award for Nonfiction, Commonwealth Club of California (Inglés), California Commonwealth Club Gold Medal (Inglés)
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Since 1931, the Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers. Each year a select jury considers hundreds of books mostrar más in search of the very best in literary achievement. Eligible books must be written while the author is a resident of California, and they must be published during the year under consideration. Awards are presented in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, First Work of Fiction, Poetry, Californiana, Notable Contribution to Publishing, Juvenile Literature and Young Adult Literature. mostrar menos
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Gold Medal 78

ObraAño
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis por Adam Hochschild2023
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire por Lizzie Johnson2022
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War por Alice L Baumgartner2021
The Library Book por Susan Orlean2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America por Richard Rothstein2018
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America por Andrés Reséndez2017
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America por Andrés Reséndez2016
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America por Jill Leovy2015
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography por Miriam Pawel2014
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety por Eric Schlosser2013
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine por Victoria Sweet2012
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum por Jason Felch2011
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History por Yunte Huang2010
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster por Rebecca Solnit2009
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life por John Adams2008
Ralph Ellison: A Biography por Arnold Rampersad2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals por Michael Pollan2006
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves por Adam Hochschild2005
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic por Chalmers Johnson2004
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West por Rebecca Solnit2003
Brown: The Last Discovery of America por Richard Rodriguez2002
American Colonies: The Settling of North America por Alan Taylor2001
Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 por A. J. Langguth2000
Entre el Miedo y la Libertad. por David M. Kennedy1999
El fantasma del rey Leopoldo por Adam Hochschild1998
Armas, gérmenes y acero : Breve historia de la humanidad en los últimos trece mil años por Jared Diamond1997
Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir por D. J. Waldie1996
Opera in America : A Cultural History por John Dizikes1993
Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People por Ramon Eduardo Ruiz1992
Anne Sexton: A Biography por Diane Middlebrook1991
Sacred Mountains of the World por Edwin Bernbaum1990
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans por Ronald Takaki1989
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World por Donald R. Howard1987
France, Fin de Siècle por Eugen Weber1986
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals por Spiro Kostof1985
French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries por Jean V. Bony1983
The First Elizabeth por Carolly Erickson1983
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 por Robert Middlekauff1982
Hambre de memoria: la educación de Richard Rodriguez por Richard Rodriguez1981
Translating Neruda : the way to Macchu Picchu por John Felstiner1980
A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution por Page Smith1976
El saqueo del Nilo: ladrones de tumbas, turistas y arqueólogos en Egipto por Brian M. Fagan1975
El ascenso del hombre por Jacob Bronowski1974
Steinbeck Country por Steve Crouch1973
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 por Kevin Starr1973
Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill por Travis Bogard1972
Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India por Stephen N. Hay1970
With Bold Knife and Fork por M. F. K. Fisher1969
Edward L. Thorndike: The Sane Positivist por Geraldine JonCich Clifford1968
Heroic Mexico: The Violent Emergence of a Modern Nation por William Weber Johnson1968
Robert E. Lee: A Portrait por Margaret Sanborn1967
The Stone Mason of Tor House: The Life and Times of Robinson Jeffers por Melba Berry Bennett1966
The cave and the mountain : a study of E M Forster por Wilfred Stone1966
Arfive por A.B. Jr Guthrie1965
Oil, land, and politics; the California career of Thomas Robert Bard por W. H. Hutchinson1965
Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564 por C. D. O'Malley1964
A History of Russia por Nicholas V. Riasanovsky1963
Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox [Revised and Expanded Edition] por Heinz Politzer1962
John Adams por Page Smith1962
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life por Mark Schorer1961
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 por George Dangerfield1960
Alexander Hamilton: portrait in paradox por John Chester Miller1959
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël por J. Christopher Herold1958
Elizabethans at Home por Lu Emily Pearson1957
Historia de una monja por Kathryn Hulme1956
Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 por Carl Bridenbaugh1955
Notre-Dame of Paris por Allan Temko1955
Howells and the age of realism por Everett Carter1954
It's good to be black por Ruby Berkley Goodwin1953
Boss Ruef's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution (Cal 138) por Walton Bean1952
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements por Eric Hoffer1951
Sea Road to the Indies: An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count Vidigueira por Henry Hersch Hart1950
Minor Heresies, Major Departures: A China Mission Boyhood por John Jenkins Espey1945
Caesar and Christ por Will Durant1944
Brothers under the skin por Carey McWilliams1943
Lord of Alaska; Baranov and the Russian Adventure por Hector Chevigny1941
San Francisco tales por Charles Dobie1935
San Francisco: A Pageant por Charles Caldwell Dobie1933

Silver Medal 88

ObraAño
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands por Kelly Lytle Hernandez2023
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir por Ingrid Rojas Contreras2023
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir por Ingrid Rojas Contreras2022
Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis por Gabrielle Selz2022
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America por Conor Dougherty2021
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment por Shane Bauer2019
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life por Lauren Markham2018
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature por Jordan Fisher Smith2017
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature por Jordan Fisher Smith2016
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity por Steve Silberman2015
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free por Héctor Tobar2014
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti por Amy Wilentz2013
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer por Anne-Marie O'Connor2012
Contra la originalidad por Jonathan Lethem2011
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America por Don Lattin2010
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West por Deanne Stillman2008
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 por Daniel Walker Howe2007
La Traversia de Enrique por Sonia Nazario2006
Colapso : por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen por Jared M. Diamond2005
American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950 por Bram Dijkstra2003
American Law in the Twentieth Century por Lawrence M. Friedman2002
Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe por Brad S. Gregory1999
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery por Henry Mayer1998
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics por Ruth Lewin Sime1996
Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America por Mike Rose1995
Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic por Galen Rowell1995
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap por Peggy Orenstein1994
No Way to Build a Ballpark and Other Irreverent Essays on Architecture por Allan Temko1993
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father por Richard Rodriguez1992
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women por Susan Faludi1991
The Knight, Death and the Devil por Ella Leffland1990
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink por Kenneth M. Stampp1990
Picasso's Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings por Herschel B. Chipp1988
The Way to the Western Sea por David Lavender1988
Green Architecture & The Agrarian Garden por Barbara Stauffacher Solomon1988
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic por Randy Shilts1987
Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific por Lynne Withey1987
Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence por Gene Brucker1986
Above Paris por Pierre Salinger1984
Will's Boy: A Memoir por Wright Morris1981
A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 por Charles Royster1980
The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War por Kenneth M. Stampp1980
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery por Leon F. Litwack1979
The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution por Gary B. Nash1979
Germany 1866-1945 por Gordon A. Craig1978
Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend por Charles W. Jones1978
Fremont: Explorer for a Restless Nation por Ferol Egan1977
Botanical Prints por Henry Evans1977
Haywire por Brooke Hayward1977
Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 por Eugen Weber1976
The Age of Napoleon por Will Durant1975
The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar por Peter Ward Fay1975
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed por Robert A. Rosenstone1975
Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy por John Niven1973
Sand in a Whirlwind: The Paiute Indian War of 1860 por Ferol Egan1972
Textile Art in the Church por Marion P. Ireland1971
Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time por Will Durant1970
The Rise of Modern China por Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü1970
The Immigrant Upraised: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America por Andrew F. Rolle1968
Fathers por Herbert Gold1967
The young Stalin; the early years of an elusive revolutionary por Edward Ellis Smith1967
Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890 por Leonard Pitt1966
The ordeal of the Constitution; the antifederalists and the ratification struggle of 1787-1788 por Robert Allen Rutland1966
Mein Cello und ich und unsere Begegnungen por Gregor Piatigorsky1965
The Final Challenge: The American Frontier, 1804-1845 por Dale Van Every1965
James Gibbons Huneker, critic of the seven arts por Arnold T. Schwab1963
Ah, Julian! A memoir of Julian Brodetsky por Leonard Wibberley1963
Adolph Sutro, a biography por Robert E. Stewart1962
Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774 por Dale Van Every1961
The War for the Union, Vol. 2: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863 por Allan Nevins1960
Thaddeus Stevens : Scourge of the South por Fawn Brodie1959
The end of American innocence : a study of the first years of our own time, 1912-1917 por Henry Farnham May1959
Land of Giants: Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950 por David Lavender1958
The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 por George E. Mowry1958
James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742-1798 por Charles Page Smith1956
The Streets of San Francisco por Samuel Dickson1955
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West por Wallace Stegner1954
Glory, God and Gold: A Narrative History of the Southwest por Paul I. Wellman1954
Ark of Empire por Idwal Jones1951
The Negro and the Communist Party por Wilson Record1951
Fifth Chinese Daughter por Jade Snow Wong1950
To Hell and Back por Audie Murphy1949
The Big Divide por David Lavender1948
The Legend of Henry Ford por Keith Sward1948
The great forest por Richard Gordon Lillard1947
The Christian heritage in America por George Percy Hedley1946
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement por George E. Mowry1946
South America called them; explorations of the great naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce por Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen1945

Winner 161

ObraAño
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis por Adam Hochschild2023
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands por Kelly Lytle Hernandez2023
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir por Ingrid Rojas Contreras2023
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire por Lizzie Johnson2022
Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis por Gabrielle Selz2022
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War por Alice L Baumgartner2021
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America por Conor Dougherty2021
The Library Book por Susan Orlean2019
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment por Shane Bauer2019
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America por Andrés Reséndez2016
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature por Jordan Fisher Smith2016
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America por Jill Leovy2015
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity por Steve Silberman2015
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography por Miriam Pawel2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free por Héctor Tobar2014
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety por Eric Schlosser2013
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti por Amy Wilentz2013
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine por Victoria Sweet2012
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer por Anne-Marie O'Connor2012
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum por Jason Felch2011
Contra la originalidad por Jonathan Lethem2011
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History por Yunte Huang2010
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America por Don Lattin2010
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster por Rebecca Solnit2009
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life por John Adams2008
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West por Deanne Stillman2008
Ralph Ellison: A Biography por Arnold Rampersad2007
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 por Daniel Walker Howe2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals por Michael Pollan2006
La Traversia de Enrique por Sonia Nazario2006
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves por Adam Hochschild2005
Colapso : por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen por Jared M. Diamond2005
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic por Chalmers Johnson2004
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West por Rebecca Solnit2003
American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950 por Bram Dijkstra2003
Brown: The Last Discovery of America por Richard Rodriguez2002
American Law in the Twentieth Century por Lawrence M. Friedman2002
American Colonies: The Settling of North America por Alan Taylor2001
Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 por A. J. Langguth2000
Entre el Miedo y la Libertad. por David M. Kennedy1999
Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe por Brad S. Gregory1999
El fantasma del rey Leopoldo por Adam Hochschild1998
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery por Henry Mayer1998
Armas, gérmenes y acero : Breve historia de la humanidad en los últimos trece mil años por Jared Diamond1997
Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir por D. J. Waldie1996
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics por Ruth Lewin Sime1996
Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America por Mike Rose1995
Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic por Galen Rowell1995
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap por Peggy Orenstein1994
Opera in America : A Cultural History por John Dizikes1993
No Way to Build a Ballpark and Other Irreverent Essays on Architecture por Allan Temko1993
Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People por Ramon Eduardo Ruiz1992
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father por Richard Rodriguez1992
Anne Sexton: A Biography por Diane Middlebrook1991
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women por Susan Faludi1991
Sacred Mountains of the World por Edwin Bernbaum1990
The Knight, Death and the Devil por Ella Leffland1990
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink por Kenneth M. Stampp1990
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans por Ronald Takaki1989
Picasso's Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings por Herschel B. Chipp1988
The Way to the Western Sea por David Lavender1988
Green Architecture & The Agrarian Garden por Barbara Stauffacher Solomon1988
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World por Donald R. Howard1987
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic por Randy Shilts1987
Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific por Lynne Withey1987
France, Fin de Siècle por Eugen Weber1986
Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence por Gene Brucker1986
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals por Spiro Kostof1985
Above Paris por Pierre Salinger1984
French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries por Jean V. Bony1983
The First Elizabeth por Carolly Erickson1983
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 por Robert Middlekauff1982
Hambre de memoria: la educación de Richard Rodriguez por Richard Rodriguez1981
Will's Boy: A Memoir por Wright Morris1981
Translating Neruda : the way to Macchu Picchu por John Felstiner1980
A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 por Charles Royster1980
The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War por Kenneth M. Stampp1980
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery por Leon F. Litwack1979
The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution por Gary B. Nash1979
Germany 1866-1945 por Gordon A. Craig1978
Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend por Charles W. Jones1978
Fremont: Explorer for a Restless Nation por Ferol Egan1977
Botanical Prints por Henry Evans1977
Haywire por Brooke Hayward1977
A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution por Page Smith1976
Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 por Eugen Weber1976
El saqueo del Nilo: ladrones de tumbas, turistas y arqueólogos en Egipto por Brian M. Fagan1975
The Age of Napoleon por Will Durant1975
The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar por Peter Ward Fay1975
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed por Robert A. Rosenstone1975
El ascenso del hombre por Jacob Bronowski1974
Steinbeck Country por Steve Crouch1973
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 por Kevin Starr1973
Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy por John Niven1973
Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill por Travis Bogard1972
Sand in a Whirlwind: The Paiute Indian War of 1860 por Ferol Egan1972
Textile Art in the Church por Marion P. Ireland1971
Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India por Stephen N. Hay1970
Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time por Will Durant1970
The Rise of Modern China por Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü1970
With Bold Knife and Fork por M. F. K. Fisher1969
Edward L. Thorndike: The Sane Positivist por Geraldine JonCich Clifford1968
Heroic Mexico: The Violent Emergence of a Modern Nation por William Weber Johnson1968
The Immigrant Upraised: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America por Andrew F. Rolle1968
Robert E. Lee: A Portrait por Margaret Sanborn1967
Fathers por Herbert Gold1967
The young Stalin; the early years of an elusive revolutionary por Edward Ellis Smith1967
The Stone Mason of Tor House: The Life and Times of Robinson Jeffers por Melba Berry Bennett1966
The cave and the mountain : a study of E M Forster por Wilfred Stone1966
Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890 por Leonard Pitt1966
The ordeal of the Constitution; the antifederalists and the ratification struggle of 1787-1788 por Robert Allen Rutland1966
Arfive por A.B. Jr Guthrie1965
Oil, land, and politics; the California career of Thomas Robert Bard por W. H. Hutchinson1965
Mein Cello und ich und unsere Begegnungen por Gregor Piatigorsky1965
The Final Challenge: The American Frontier, 1804-1845 por Dale Van Every1965
Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564 por C. D. O'Malley1964
A History of Russia por Nicholas V. Riasanovsky1963
James Gibbons Huneker, critic of the seven arts por Arnold T. Schwab1963
Ah, Julian! A memoir of Julian Brodetsky por Leonard Wibberley1963
Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox [Revised and Expanded Edition] por Heinz Politzer1962
John Adams por Page Smith1962
Adolph Sutro, a biography por Robert E. Stewart1962
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life por Mark Schorer1961
Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774 por Dale Van Every1961
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 por George Dangerfield1960
The War for the Union, Vol. 2: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863 por Allan Nevins1960
Alexander Hamilton: portrait in paradox por John Chester Miller1959
Thaddeus Stevens : Scourge of the South por Fawn Brodie1959
The end of American innocence : a study of the first years of our own time, 1912-1917 por Henry Farnham May1959
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël por J. Christopher Herold1958
Land of Giants: Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950 por David Lavender1958
The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 por George E. Mowry1958
Elizabethans at Home por Lu Emily Pearson1957
Historia de una monja por Kathryn Hulme1956
James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742-1798 por Charles Page Smith1956
Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 por Carl Bridenbaugh1955
Notre-Dame of Paris por Allan Temko1955
The Streets of San Francisco por Samuel Dickson1955
Howells and the age of realism por Everett Carter1954
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West por Wallace Stegner1954
Glory, God and Gold: A Narrative History of the Southwest por Paul I. Wellman1954
It's good to be black por Ruby Berkley Goodwin1953
Boss Ruef's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution (Cal 138) por Walton Bean1952
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements por Eric Hoffer1951
Ark of Empire por Idwal Jones1951
The Negro and the Communist Party por Wilson Record1951
Sea Road to the Indies: An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count Vidigueira por Henry Hersch Hart1950
Fifth Chinese Daughter por Jade Snow Wong1950
To Hell and Back por Audie Murphy1949
The Big Divide por David Lavender1948
The Legend of Henry Ford por Keith Sward1948
The great forest por Richard Gordon Lillard1947
The Christian heritage in America por George Percy Hedley1946
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement por George E. Mowry1946
Minor Heresies, Major Departures: A China Mission Boyhood por John Jenkins Espey1945
South America called them; explorations of the great naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce por Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen1945
Caesar and Christ por Will Durant1944
Brothers under the skin por Carey McWilliams1943
Lord of Alaska; Baranov and the Russian Adventure por Hector Chevigny1941
San Francisco tales por Charles Dobie1935
San Francisco: A Pageant por Charles Caldwell Dobie1933

Finalist 42

ObraAño
The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future por Peter Gleick2024
The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival por Lisa M. Hamilton2024
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History por Yunte Huang2024
Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir por Fae Myenne Ng2024
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline por Rosanna Xia2024
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis por Adam Hochschild2023
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands por Kelly Lytle Hernandez2023
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir por Ingrid Rojas Contreras2023
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History por Ian Morris2023
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire por Lizzie Johnson2022
Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis por Gabrielle Selz2022
Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It por LaDoris Hazzard Cordell2022
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could por Adam Schiff2022
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature por Beth Shapiro2022
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War por Alice L Baumgartner2021
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America por Conor Dougherty2021
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time por Ben Ehrenreich2021
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America por Laila Lalami2021
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire por Tom Zoellner2021
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization por Vince Beiser2019
Indianapolis : The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man por Lynn Vincent2019
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights por Adam Winkler2019
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America por Andrés Reséndez2017
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature por Jordan Fisher Smith2017
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 por Adam Hochschild2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right por Arlie Russell Hochschild2016
The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire por Kimball Taylor2016
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America por Jill Leovy2015
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