2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

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…

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Gordon S. Wood

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

Martha A. Sandweiss

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes