1968 Book Award Winners

Nat Turner is in a cell in Jerusalem, Virginia, in November 1831, waiting to be hanged, and he tells the story himself. He was born into slavery in...

In Coaltown, Illinois, in the summer of 1902, Breckenridge Lansing is shot dead at rifle practice in his own garden, and his neighbor John Ashley,...

Rousseau and Revolution is the tenth of the eleven volumes of The Story of Civilization, the series Will Durant began in 1935 and later shared with...

Bernard Bailyn built The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution out of an introduction he had written two years earlier for a documentary...

George Kennan's Memoirs is his own account of the twenty five years, 1925 to 1950, that took him from a young Foreign Service officer to the...

George F. Kennan's Memoirs is that rare thing, a statesman's autobiography that is also a work of literature, and it may be the best book ever...

The Hard Hours is Anthony Hecht's second collection, the book in which he finally confronted, in verse, what he had witnessed as a twenty two year...

The crew of a colony ship reached a new world, subdued its native energy beings, and then declined to share their technology with the descendants...

Earth was destroyed in 2041 by its own overpopulation, and the survivors are divided between a handful of enormous generation ships built from...

Fred Fitch is the most swindled man in New York. Con artists cross the street to find him; he has bought shares in nonexistent uranium, subscribed...

Frustrated with what she considers the injustice and monotony of life as the oldest, most responsible child in her suburban Connecticut family,...

Barbara Emberley builds the text as a cumulative rhyme, the kind that keeps stacking one new detail onto the last until the whole thing fires at...

Shimamura is a wealthy, idle Tokyo man who travels repeatedly across the mountains to a remote hot spring town, drawn back each time to Komako, a...