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Books on slavery and immigration among Lukas project winners
Read full article: Books on slavery and immigration among Lukas project winnersThis image released by Viking shows "After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America" by Jessica Goudeau, winner of the Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000 honor for a socially or politically themed work. (Viking via AP)NEW YORK โ Books about slavery, immigration and drug treatment are among this year's winners of awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Project. Jessica Goudeau's โAfter the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in Americaโ won the Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000 honor for a socially or politically themed work which demonstrates โliterary grace, commitment to serious research, and original reporting.โThe Mark Lynton History Prize, also worth $10,000, was given to William G. Thomas III for โA Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nationโs Founding to the Civil War.โOn Wednesday, the Lukas project also announced two work-in-progress awards, each with a $25,000 cash prize to help with the book's completion: Emily Dufton, for โAddiction, Inc.: How the Corporate Takeover of Americaโs Treatment Industry Created a Profitable Epidemicโ and Casey Parks, for โDiary Of a Misfit." AdThe Lukas project, based at Columbia University, is named for the late investigative reporter and author. The awards were established in 1998 and have previously been given to Robert Caro, Isabel Wilkerson and Jill Lepore among others.
Wilkerson's 'Caste' among finalists for Lukas book prize
Read full article: Wilkerson's 'Caste' among finalists for Lukas book prizeThe book looks at American history and the treatment of Blacks and finds what she calls an enduring, unseen and unmentioned caste system. Wilkersons book and an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X are among this years nominees for awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project. Winners of the Lukas Book Prize and Lynton history prize receive $10,000 each. The project awards two works in progress, each worth $25,000. AdโThe Dead are Arising,โ which won the National Book Award last fall, is a finalist for the Lynton prize.