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George Washington as a feisty young frontier soldier, the U.S. as an infant
world power, the founding era as seen through the eyes of Thomas
Jefferson’s favorite daughter, and Jefferson himself as an American
nationalist – these are the subjects of four exciting new works named
finalists for the 2013 George Washington Book Prize, a $50,000 award that
recognizes the best recent book on the nation’s founding era.

Washington College today announced this year’s finalists as Stephen
Brumwell’s *George Washington: Gentleman Warrior* (Quercus), Eliga H.
Gould’s *Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the
Making of a New World Empire* (Harvard), Cynthia A. Kierner’s *Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times* (UNC) and
Brian Steele’s *Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood* (Cambridge). All
four books were published in 2012.

Co-sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History and George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the award is the
largest nationwide for a book on early American history, and one of the
largest literary prizes of any kind. It recognizes the past year’s best
books on the nation’s founding, especially those that have the potential to
advance broad public understanding of American history.

The winner of the $50,000 prize will be announced at a dinner on May 22 at
George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens in Virginia.

For the full press release on the 2013 George Washington Book Prize please
go to http://www.washcoll.edu/live/**news/1598-the-final-four<http://www.washcoll.edu/live/news/1598-the-final-four>

Jon Kukla
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www.JonKukla.com <http://www.jonkukla.com/>

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