Among the many winners at last night's Grammy Awards was a book-related one. In the Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling) category, the Grammy went to A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter (S&S Audio).
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The finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Prize, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, George Washington's Mount Vernon and Washington College and honoring "the past year's best written works on the nation's founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of early American history," are:
- Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder (Harvard University Press)
- Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution by Kathleen DuVal (Random House)
- The Washingtons: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" by Flora Fraser (Knopf)
- Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader by Robert Middlekauff (Knopf)
- Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World by Janet Polasky (Yale University Press)
- Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution by David Preston (Oxford University Press)
- War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation by John Sedgwick (Penguin)
The winner of the prize will be announced at Mount Vernon on May 25.
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The finalists are of the Hayek Book Prize, sponsored by the Manhattan Institute and honoring "authors who best represent the universality and timeliness of the principles of F.A. Hayek," are:
- Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life by Edward Peter Stringham (Oxford University Press)
- The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government by Philip K. Howard (Norton)
- Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies by Cesar Hidalgo (Basic Books)
- The Logic of the Market: An Insider's View of Chinese Economic Reform by Weiying Zhang (Cato Institute Press)
- Is Administrative Law Unlawful? by Philip Hamburger (University of Chicago Press)
- The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government by Richard A. Epstein (Harvard University Press)
The winner, who will receive a $50,000 award, will be announced in early March and will deliver the annual Hayek lecture in New York in early June.