Annal:1994 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction

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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

The intriguing story of Eleanor Roosevelt traces the life of the former First Lady from her early childhood through the tumultuous years in the White House to her active role in the founding of the United Nations after World War II.

Unconditional Surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War

Albert Marrin

1994 Horn Book-nonfiction honor
Score: 6.44

When the small, stoop-shouldered man in a rumpled uniform and scuffed boots, accompanied by a thirteen-year-old boy, asked for a room at Willard’s Hotel in Washington, D.C., he was offered a small room on the top floor. But when the clerk saw the man’s signature, suddenly a suite was found for him. The man was Ulysses S. Grant, and President Lincoln recently had appointed him commander in chief of the Union forces.

Noted historian Albert Marrin tells how this reluctant soldier became the leader who was able to bring final victory to the Union after years of…