Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize Winners

The Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize honors the memory of Thomas J. Wilson, director of Harvard University Press from 1947 to 1967. It is awarded to an ...more

Winners

	Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China by Annah Lake Zhu 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism by Mircea Raianu 3.36 avg rating — 28 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston by Cristina Viviana Groeger really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution by Lindsay M. Chervinsky (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 296 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia's Quest for World Power by Gregory Afinogenov 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack 4.26 avg rating — 1,721 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era by Jonathan Gienapp 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua 4.20 avg rating — 51 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton 4.15 avg rating — 651 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lyric in the Age of the Brain by Nikki Skillman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate by Mary Ziegler 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United by Zephyr Teachout 3.87 avg rating — 511 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus by Waitman Wade Beorn 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India by Ananya Vajpeyi 3.70 avg rating — 60 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism by Jonathan Bolton 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism by James R. Fichter 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836 by Lisa Ford 3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment by Christian Thorne 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America by Matthew Avery Sutton 3.73 avg rating — 168 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America by James Delbourgo 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment by Bryan Garsten 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Born Losers: A History of Failure in America by Scott A. Sandage 3.79 avg rating — 154 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City by Martha Biondi 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law by John Fabian Witt 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual Property by Corynne McSherry liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joseph Schumpeter's Two Theories of Democracy by John Medearis 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness by Carrie Tirado Bramen 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson 4.11 avg rating — 1,875 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe by Brad S. Gregory 3.94 avg rating — 63 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State by Robert C. Lieberman 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars