George Washington Book Prize Winners

The George Washington Prize honors the year’s best new works on early American history, especially those that have the potential to advance broad publ ...more

Winners

	Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series) by Nathaniel Philbrick (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 8,344 ratings George Washington Book 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 Washingtons: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" by Flora Fraser 3.57 avg rating — 165 ratings George Washington Book 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
	An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker 4.17 avg rating — 619 ratings George Washington Book 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 Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Andrew O'Shaughnessy 4.17 avg rating — 884 ratings George Washington Book 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
	George Washington: Gentleman Warrior by Stephen Brumwell 4.11 avg rating — 124 ratings George Washington Book 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
	Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff 3.94 avg rating — 925 ratings George Washington Book 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
	Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier 4.10 avg rating — 1,129 ratings George Washington Book 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
	Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman 4.13 avg rating — 1,287 ratings George Washington Book 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
	The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,838 ratings George Washington Book 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
	The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker 4.12 avg rating — 1,893 ratings George Washington Book 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
	Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye 3.57 avg rating — 183 ratings George Washington Book Prize (2007)	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 Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 1,169 ratings George Washington Book 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
	Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 4.22 avg rating — 171,361 ratings George Washington Book 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

nominees

	The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor 3.95 avg rating — 1,081 ratings George Washington Book Prize Nominee (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
	Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack N. Rakove 3.91 avg rating — 1,359 ratings George Washington Book Prize Nominee (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
	General George Washington: A Military Life by Edward G. Lengel (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 376 ratings George Washington Book Prize Nominee (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
	Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation by Rhys Isaac 3.55 avg rating — 80 ratings George Washington Book Prize Nominee (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
	The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood 4.14 avg rating — 8,272 ratings George Washington Book Prize Nominee (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

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Bram Stoker Award
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Newbery Medal
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