Awards & Winners

Ambassador Book Award for American Studies

Ambassador Book Award

Date Established : 1987

Check all the winners of Ambassador Book Award for American Studies presented under Ambassador Book Award since 1987 .


James Mann

Honored for : The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War

Morris Dickstein

Honored for : Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

Christopher Benfey

Honored for : A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade

Rebecca Solnit

Honored for : Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Timothy Egan

Honored for : The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Stacy Schiff

Honored for : A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

David Hackett Fischer

Honored for : Washington's Crossing

David Maraniss

Honored for : They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967

Mary Beth Norton

Honored for : In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

Diane McWhorter

Honored for : Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Nathaniel Philbrick

Honored for : In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

David M. Kennedy

Honored for : Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

Edward Ball

Honored for : Slaves in the Family

Robert Hughes

Honored for : American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

Stephen Ambrose

Honored for : Undaunted Courage

John Hockenberry

Honored for : Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence

John Egerton

Honored for : Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

George F. Kennan

Honored for : Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy

Garry Wills

Honored for : Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Michael Beschloss

Honored for : The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963

Brendan Gill

Honored for : A New York Life: Of Friends and Others

Tracy Kidder

Honored for : Among Schoolchildren

Neil Sheehan

Honored for : A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Joan Didion

Honored for : Miami

Frances FitzGerald

Honored for : Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Honored for : The Cycles of American History