The finalists for the 2015 George Washington Book Prize, recognizing the best new books on early American history, are:
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker (Knopf)
The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding by Eric Nelson (Belknap Press)
A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia by Richard Dunn (Harvard University Press)
When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation by François Furstenberg (Penguin Press)
The winner of the $50,000 prize will be announced at a gala on May 20 at Mount Vernon. The prize is sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Mount Vernon and Washington College.
