NJCH ANNUAL BOOK AWARD | TEACHER OF THE YEAR

2007 NJCH Book Award Winner

  • Jonathan Alter, The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, Simon and Schuster

2007 NJCH Honor Books

  • Frank Argote-Freyre, Fulgencio Batista: Volume 1, From Revolutionary to Strongman, Rutgers University Press
  • James Axtell, The Making of Princeton University, Princeton University Press
  • William C. Dowling, Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, University Press of New England
  • John McPhee, Uncommon Carriers, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival, Oxford University Press

 

NJCH Book Award Information and Application Instructions :

Each year NJCH selects for its Book Award a work of nonfiction in the humanities that encourages critical reflection and makes scholarly knowledge accessible to a general audience. The award is presented at the Council’s Humanities Celebration Luncheon in October. Publishers are invited to nominate books that fulfill the following criteria.

CRITERIA

1. The author has a New Jersey connection either by birth, residence, or occupation at the time of submission, or the book is concerned primarily with a significant New Jersey subject. In either case, the author must clearly possess and display knowledge of the subject.

2. The subject of the book is in one or several of the Humanities fields as defined by the National Endowment for the Humanities, including, but not limited to: literature, language, aesthetics, jurisprudence, history, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics, and those aspects of the social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods.

3. The book is a work of nonfiction that encourages critical reflection and/or makes scholarly knowledge available and exciting to a general audience.

4. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2008 for books published between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007.

5. Normally, edited or multiple authored works are not eligible.

6. A book published in a foreign language is eligible only if it is available in English translation.

7. Reprints may be nominated only if they were not nominated in the year that they were originally published.

8. The winning author will attend the presentation ceremony in October to receive the award.

Note: The Award is annual and is granted to a single book. The NJCH reserves the right to make no award in a year in which no book is considered worthy of the Award. Likewise, the Council reserves the right to select up to five books as “Honor Books” during the competition, or to make no such designation in a year in which no books are considered worthy of this designation.

For each title nominated, please submit the following:

Completed application
6 reading copies of the book (hardcover whenever possible)
A brief description of the book and a statement of why it deserves this award
Press kit for nominated title, including author photograph(s)
Important reminder: Publishers may nominate more than one title.

Award: $1,000 to the author

Presentation of Award: October 2008

RECENT PAST WINNERS
(For a complete list of winners, including Honor Books, contact NJCH.)

2006 Patricia Tyson Stroud, The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
2005 David Hackett Fisher, Washington's Crossing (Oxford University Press, 2004)
2004 Suzanne Lebsock, A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial (W.W. Norton & Company, 2003).
2003 Arthur Hertzberg, A Jew in America: My Life and People's Struggle for Identity (Harper San Francisco, 2002).
2002 Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale University Press, 2001)
2001 Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History (Harvard University Press, 2000)
2000 Gina Kolata, Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1999)
   

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