Annal:2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
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Results of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Biography books
- Biography authors.
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946
- 2001 JT Black-Biography winner
- Score: 10.51
The eagerly awaited third, and final, volume of Robert Skidelsky’s definitive and consummate biography of John Maynard Keynes covers the period from 1937, when Keynes had become the world’s most influential economist, to his death in 1946. It focuses on Keynes’s outstanding contribution to the financing of Britain’s war effort, the building of the postwar economic order, and his role in the “other war”—Britain’s struggle to preserve its independence within the Atlantic Alliance. Insightful and intelligent, this is a work that tells the story of one of`the most…
Hitler: Volume 2. 1936-1945 Nemesis
- 2001 JT Black-Biography shortlist
- 2000 LATimes–Biography finalist
- 2000 Whitbread-Biography shortlist
- Score: 18.51
The most powerful account of Hitler’s domination of the German people through fanaticism, divisiveness, and luck. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in this century.
Ian Kershaw’s Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the character of the…
Frantz Fanon: A Life
- 2001 JT Black-Biography shortlist
- Score: 6.51
David Macey’s Frantz Fanon: A Life is an elegant and extremely accomplished biography of one of the 20th century’s most influential third world thinkers, a black man from the Caribbean who died a member of the Algerian FLN and whose violently eloquent writings inspired self-styled revolutionaries around the world.
Born in Martinique, then as now a departement of France, Frantz Fanon (l925-61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyons before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a soldier in the Free French Army, for which…
Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer
- 2001 JT Black-Biography shortlist
- Score: 6.51
Adventurous and willful, the swashbuckling Martin Frobisher was both a brave sea-commander who served Elizabeth I with distinction and a privateer who single-mindedly pursued his own interests. This highly entertaining biography provides the first complete picture of the life and exploits of Frobisher—from his voyages in search of the fabled Northwest Passage to his courageous resistance to the Spanish Armada and his exploits as privateer and sometime pirate. The book explores Frobisher’s vigorous personality and its manifestation in the turbulence of his career…
A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany
- 2001 JT Black-Biography shortlist
- Score: 6.51
A Past in Hiding is a survivor story and historical investigation that offers new insight into daily life in the Third Reich and the powers and pitfalls of memory. At the outbreak of World War II, Marianne Strauss, the sheltered daughter of well-to-do German Jews, was an ordinary girl, concerned with her studies, friends, and romance. Almost overnight she was transformed into a woman of spirit and defiance, a fighter who, when the Gestapo came for her family, seized the moment and went underground. On the run for two years, Marianne traveled across Nazi…
