2008

winners

Discover honored books by category:

WINNER

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

W.W. Norton & Company More about this book >

FINALISTS

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

Alfred A. Knopf More about this book >

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

Jane Mayer

Doubleday More about this book >

Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives

Jim Sheeler

The Penguin Press More about this book >

The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order

Joan Wickersham

Harcourt More about this book >

Judges

Marie Arana

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Russell Jacoby

Megan Marshall

Kevin Starr

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