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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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Download 2008
Book Award Nomination Form in Word format
Download 2008 Book Award
Nomination Form in PDF format
All forms
are in PDF format. You will need Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view and print them.

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