Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Liberty's Exiles


     
George Washington Book Prize of $50,000 Goes to Maya Jasanoff

for Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

Mount Vernon, VA, June 4, 2012—One of the nation’s largest literary awards, the annual George Washington Book Prize, has been awarded to Maya Jasanoff for Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Knopf, 2011).  Jasanoff, a professor of history at Harvard University, received the $50,000 prize on Monday evening, June 4, at a black-tie dinner at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate, Museum & Gardens.

Read all about it here.
     

1 comment:

Jonathan Rowe said...

I'm sure her book is great, but for obvious reasons I was rooting for John Fea.