Summary
Two books offering fresh and provocative insights into the lives of three of the Civil War era's most compelling figures - Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Robert E. Lee - will share the 2008 Lincoln Prize, the most generous and prestigious award in the field of American history. The winners of this year's prize are James Oakes of the City University of New York for "The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics" (W.W. Norton) and Elizabeth Brown Pryor for "Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters" (Viking).
Each author will receive a $20,000 cash award along with a bronze cast of Augustus St. Gaudens' larger-than-life portrait sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.See the full content of this document
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Authors to Share Lincoln Award
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