Previous winners of the award, founded in 1990, include Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" and David Herbert Donald's "Lincoln."
Lincoln Prize for Civil War scholarship
NEW YORK (AP) - February 12, 2008 James Oakes, author of "The Radical and the Republican:
Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery
Politics," and Elizabeth Brown Pryor, who wrote "Reading the Man:
A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters," each
will receive $20,000.
"James Oakes and Elizabeth Brown Pryor have made major
contributions to our understanding of leaders who - by their
writing, political leadership, and military genius, and by either
their capacity for, or resistance to, change - altered the way
America regards both itself and its people," Lincoln Prize
founders Richard Gilman and Lewis Lehrman said in a statement
Tuesday, Lincoln's 199th birthday.
