For the best book of the year upon the history of the United States, Five hundred dollars ($500).
The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 , by Lawrence H. Gipson (Knopf )
The Jury
The Jury
Roy F. Nichols*
University of Pennsylvania
Winners in History
1962 Prize Winners
Edmund S. Valtman
For "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine," published on August 31, 1961.
Thomas M. Storke
For his forceful editorials calling public attention to the activities of a semi-secret organization known as the John Birch Society.