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

The Age of Reform , by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf )

The Jury

Harry J. Carman

Winners in History

1956 Prize Winners

Lauren K. Soth

For the editorial inviting a farm delegation from the Soviet Union to visit Iowa, which led directly to the Russian farm visit to the U.S..