Annal:1974 National Book Award for Biography
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Results of the National Book Award in the year 1974. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- National Book Award for Biography
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Biography books
- Biography authors.
Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
- 1974 NBA–Biography winner
- 1974 NBA–History winner
- Score: 20.24
Thomas Babington Macaulay was one of nineteenth-century England’s greatest figures. His History of England has been a classic for well over a century; his parliamentary speeches and his essays have inspired generations of statesmen; schoolchildren by the millions have memorized his Lays of Ancient Rome. In this masterly book, John Clive give us the forces—familial, intellectual, circumstatntial and psychological—that shaped the life and mind of this great historian and orator.
