2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner
![Jefferson Davis, American](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581049062-7616-image-3.jpg)
Jefferson Davis, American
William J. Cooper
An engaging portrait of the Southern soldier-statesman who led the Confederacy retraces his evolution from a reluctant supporter of secession to his eventual total embrace of an independent Southern Confederacy….
2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Shortlist
![Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580858657-59875-image-3.jpg)
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
![Hitler: Volume 2. 1936-1945 Nemesis](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580856618-59706-image-3.jpg)
Hitler: Volume 2. 1936-1945 Nemesis
Ian Kershaw
![Mao: A Life](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580981625-3749-image-3.jpg)
Mao: A Life
Philip Short
![The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580863771-63-image-3.jpg)