1999 Lukas Prize Winners

1999 Lukas Prize Project Winners

Entry title: All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery, St. Martin's Press

Award: 1999, The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

Mayer illustrates how the religious, political, literary, and social forces of 1820-1865 coalesced to bring about a rupture in the American social order.

Jurors:

The prize's jurors were David Burnham, Melissa Fay Greene and Jonathan Yardley

Adam Hochschild

Entry title: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed. Terror. and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Houghton Mifflin

Award: 1999, The Mark Lynton History Prize

A haunting account of the plundering of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium, King Leopold's Ghost tells of the heroic efforts to expose the crimes that eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated.

Jurors:

The prize's jurors were David Levering Lewis, Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard Snow.

Kevin Coyne

Entry title: The Best Years of Their Lives: One Town's Veterans and How They Changed the World, Viking Penguin

Award: 1999, The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award

The forthcoming book traces the lives of six men from the same New Jersey town as they fight in World War II and return home to create, and in some ways, lose, a sense of community in the succeeding decades

Jurors:

The prize's jurors were Samuel Freedman, Cynthia Gorney and Tracy Kidder