Pulitzer Prize

Hello.

Those fine folks at the Pulitzer Prize recently announced their most recent crop of winners.

The library has the winning book in the Biography or Autobiography category, as well as a finalist in this category. The winner was the book American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meachem. This book deals with the years of the Presidency of Andrew Jackson during the 1820's and 1830's.



The book that was not selected but was a finalist was the Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, written by Steve Coll. This book looks at Osama Bin Laden, along with other prominent members of his extended family.

If you are interested in either of these books, please drop by the library and check them out. You can also find a review of the two books in the Galileo database Book Index with Reviews, which contains reviews of non-fiction books. This should be a good tool to help you learn more about these two books.

(Note with regard to licensing of the Bin Laden image:Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.)

JWF