At the Grammy awards last night, Senator Barack Obama won best spoken word album for his narration of his Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Random House Audio). He beat out two former presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, finalists for Giving and Sunday Mornings in Plains, respectively. Clinton and Carter have both won Grammys; Hillary Clinton has won one, too. This is Obama's second Grammy; the first was for Dreams From My Father.
And the best spoken word album for children was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, narrated by Jim Dale (Listening Library).
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The winners of the 2008 Lincoln Prize for American History, according to the New York Times:
- The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes (Norton)
- Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (Viking)