2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner
![Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581015161-5091-image-3.jpg)
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
Kevin Starr
A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr’s acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar p…
2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Shortlist
![Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580864787-147-image-3.jpg)
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Gordon S. Wood
![Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580982702-3838-image-3.jpg)
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
Amy Louise Wood
![Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580851257-59265-image-3.jpg)
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Martha A. Sandweiss
![The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580877349-1185-image-3.jpg)