2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

Paula J. Giddings

In the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about their subject, Ida: A Sword Among Lions is a sweepingnarrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching: a practice that imperiled…

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham

Chagall: A Biography

Jackie Wullschlager

Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent

Ernest Freeberg

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

H.W. Brands