Finalist: Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City , by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company )
An evocative, heavily researched examination of an industrial giant's grandiose scheme to create a model rubber plantation deep in the Amazon forest.
Winners
Prize Winner in History in 2010:
Liaquat Ahamed
A compelling account of how four powerful bankers played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression and ultimately transforming the United States into the world's financial leader.
History
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in History in 2010:
Gordon S. Wood
A lucid exploration of a turbulent era when a profoundly changing America, despite the sin of slavery, came to see itself as a beacon to the world, demonstrating human capacity for self-government.
The Jury
The Jury
Alan Brinkley(chair )
Allan Nevins Professor of History
Nancy MacLean
Peter B. Ritzma Professor of History and African American Studies
John T. McGreevy
L.A. O'Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, and professor of history
Winners in History
Annette Gordon-Reed
A painstaking exploration of a sprawling multi-generation slave family that casts provocative new light on the relationship between Sally Hemings and her master, Thomas Jefferson.
2010 Prize Winners
Paul Harding
A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.
Hank Williams
For his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life.
Liaquat Ahamed
A compelling account of how four powerful bankers played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression and ultimately transforming the United States into the world's financial leader.
Rae Armantrout
A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.