For the best book of the year upon the history of the United States, Five hundred dollars ($500).
In the Days of McKinley , by Margaret Leech (Harper )
The Jury
The Jury
John A. Krout
Columbia University
Roy F. Nichols*
University of Pennsylvania
Winners in History
1960 Prize Winners
Garrett Mattingly
It is a first class history and a literary work of high order.
Lenoir Chambers
For his series of editorials on the school integration problem in Virginia, as exemplified by "The Year the Schools Closed," published January 1, 1959, and "The Year the Schools Opened," published December 31, 1959.