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For the best book of the year upon the history of the United States, Five hundred dollars ($500).

Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, by George F. Kennan (Princeton Univ. Press)

The Jury

Harry J. Carman

Winners in History

1957 Prize Winners

Buford Boone

For his fearless and reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled, "What a Price for Peace," published on February 7,1956.