Annal:2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
- History books
- History authors
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors.
The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach
- 2000 LATimes–History winner
- 2000 NBA–Nonfiction finalist
- 2000 NBCC–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 22.5
On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance activists.
Was Brasillach in fact guilty of treason? Was he condemned for his denunciations of the resistance, or singled out as a suspected homosexual? Was it right…
Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
- 2000 LATimes–History finalist
- Score: 6.5
This gripping and heartbreaking narrative is the first full account of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime. As members of a key resistance group, Mildred and her husband, Arvid Harnack, assisted in the escape of German Jews and political dissidents, and for years provided vital economic and military intelligence to both Washington and Moscow. But in 1942, following a Soviet blunder, the Gestapo arrested, tortured and tried some four score members of the Harnack’s group, which the Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra.
Mildred…
- 2000 LATimes–History finalist
- Score: 6.5
Tim Judah forecast the Kosovo war in his writings before 1999, reported the Rambouillet peace negotiations, and covered the war from the refugee camps in Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. Immediately after the Serb withdrawal he went into Kosovo with the NATO forces, interviewing and reporting from both Pristina and Belgrade, which he has continued to visit subsequently.
Using his contacts on all sides of the conflict Judah has written the hidden story of the Balkan conflagration, looking at the historical background, the immediate run-up to the war, the…
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
- 2001 Pulitzer–History finalist
- 2000 LATimes–History finalist
- Score: 12.51
An esteemed historian offers a compelling re-thinking of the path America has taken toward its goal of universal suffrage
Most Americans take for granted their right to vote, whether they choose to exercise it or not. But the history of suffrage in the U.S. is, in fact,the story of a struggle to achieve this right by our society’s marginalized groups. In The Right to Vote, Duke historian Alexander Keyssar explores the evolution of suffrage over the course of the nation’s history. Examining the many features of the history of the right to vote in the…
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- 2000 NBA–Nonfiction winner
- 2000 LATimes–History finalist
- Score: 16.5
In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex—an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history.
In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton…
