Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History

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2018     Richard Nixon : the life by John A. Farrell
2017     A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky
2016     Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad by Eric Foner
2015     The secret history of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
2014     The men who lost America : British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
2013     George F. Kennan : an American life by John Lewis Gaddis
2012     Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2011     Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
2010     What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
2009     This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
2008     Empire of liberty : a history of the early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon Wood
2007     George Washington by Ron Chernow
2006     The years of Lyndon Johnson, volume 4 : the passage of power by Robert Caro