Herbert Hoover Book Award

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2007     Bohemian Los Angeles and the making of modern politics by Daniel Hurewitz
2006     Total cold war : Eisenhower’s secret propaganda battle at home and abroad by Kenneth Osgood
2005     Polio : an American story by David Oshinsky
2004     The lavender scare : the Cold War persecution of gays and lesbians in the federal government by David K. Johnson
2003     Nazis and good neighbors : the United States campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II by Max Paul Friedman
2002     Sloan rules : Alfred P. Sloan and the triumph of General Motors by David Farber
2001     In pursuit of equity : women, men, and the quest for economic citizenship in 20th century America by Alice Kessler-Harris
2000     Storm on the horizon : the challenge to American intervention, 1939-1941 by Justus Doenecke
1999     Broadcasting freedom : radio, war, and the politics of race, 1938-1948 by Barbara Dianne Savage
1998     The dictator next door : the good neighbor policy and the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945 by Eric Paul Roorda
1997     Atomic spaces : living on the Manhattan Project by Peter Bacon Hales
1996     Drawing the line : the American decision to divide Germany, 1944-1949 by Carolyn Eisenberg
1995     Man of the people : a life of Harry S. Truman by Alonzo Hamby
1994     A world at arms : a global history of World War II by Gerhard Weinberg (2d ed. (2005) here)
1993     The land of desire : merchants, power, and the rise of a new American culture by William Leach
1992     A preponderance of power : national security, the Truman administration, and the Cold War by Melvyn Leffler