Past Winners
2008
First Place:
Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking). 
For photos of the Mount Vernon Book Prize gala,
click
here.
A Conversation with Marcus Rediker.
Finalists:
Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
(Hill & Wang)
Jon Latimer, 1812: War With America (Belknap/Harvard)
2007
First Place:
Charles Rappleye, Sons of Providence: The Brown
Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution (Simon &
Schuster) . 
For photos of the 2007 Book Prize Ceremony, click
here.
Photos
of the 2007 Book Prize Celebration
at Washington College.
Finalists:
Francois Furstenberg, In the Name of the Father
(Penguin)
Catherine Allgor, A Perfect Union (Henry Holt)
2006
First Place:
Stacy Schiff , A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (Henry Holt). For photos of Stacy Schiff's Washington College visit, click here.
Finalists:
Edward Lengel, General George Washington: A Military
Life (Random House)
Stanley Weintraub, America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire:
1775-1783 (Free Press)
Ron Chernow receives first place for Alexander Hamilton.
Click
for more pictures.
2005 – Inaugural Year
First Place:
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (Penguin Press). Listen to audio
clips of an interview with Ron Chernow below:
Importance of Words (mp3)
Next Book: George Washington (mp3)
Writing Techniques (mp3)
Finalists:
Rhys Isaac, Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom (Oxford University
Press)
Gordon Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (Penguin)
