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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman Book Award
The Harry S. Truman Book Award is presented biennially by the Truman Library Institute. Established in 1963, the Harry S. Truman Book Award recognizes the best book published within a two-year period dealing primarily and substantially with some aspect of the history of the United States between April 12, 1945 and January 20, 1953, or with the life or career of Harry S. Truman.
2018 HARRY S. TRUMAN BOOK AWARD
The 2018 Harry S. Truman Book Award was presented to Kevin Peraino, author of A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949. Peraino is a veteran foreign correspondent who worked as senior writer and bureau chief at Newsweek for a decade. He is also the author of Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power.
RECENT AWARD RECIPIENTS
2018 A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
2016 Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe by Michael Neiberg
2014 Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism by Thomas W. Devine
2012 The War for Korea, 1950-1951: They Came from the North by Allan R. Millett
2010 Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 by Steven Casey
2008 From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War by Wilson D. Miscamble
2006 The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
2004 Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations by Stephen C. Schlesinger
2002 The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 by Kari Frederickson
2000 Downfall: The End of the Japanese Empire by Richard B. Frank
1998 (No award given)
1996 Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman by Alonzo Hamby
1994 George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950 by Wilson D. Miscamble
See all recipients since 1967 here.