Wednesday, March 15, 2006

The Rise of an American Historian

Sean Wilentz's The Rise of American Democracy wins a 2006 Bancroft Prize along with Erskine Clarke's Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic and Odd Arne Westad's The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times.
Addendum: The Washington Post includes a profile of Sean Wilentz here (via Ghost in the Machine).

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