D.B. Hardeman Prize

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The D.B. Hardeman Prize is a cash prize awarded annually by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for the best book that furthers the study of the U.S. Congress in the fields of biography, history, journalism, and political science. Submissions are judged on the basis of five criteria: (1) contribution to scholarship, (2) contribution to the public's understanding of Congress, (3) literary craftsmanship, (4) originality, and (5) depth of research. Members of the national selection committee are: Senator Tom Daschle; Lee Hamilton, Director of The Center on Congress; Thomas Mann of The Brookings Institution; Leslie Sanchez of Impacto Group; and Nancy Beck Young of The University of Houston.^[1]

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.

History is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Scholars who write about history are called historians.

Journalism refers to the production and distribution of reports on recent events. The word journalism applies to the occupation, as well as citizen journalists using methods of gathering information and using literary techniques. Journalistic media include print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels.

D. Barnard Hardeman, Jr. (1914-1981) was a politician, political scholar, journalist and teacher. He graduated from the University of Texas and the University of Texas Law School and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Hardeman served in the 52nd and 54th Legislatures representing Grayson and Collin counties in the Texas House of Representatives.^[2] Between 1958 and 1961, he worked as an assistant to Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, and was Rayburn's official biographer. ^[3] An avid bibliophile whose book collection numbered more than ten thousand volumes,^[4] Hardeman bequeathed his collection of American biographies and political history to the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.

Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was an American politician who served as the 43rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Texas's 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1913 to 1961. He holds the record for the longest tenure as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving for over 17 years.

Recipients

1980 Richard F. Fenno Jr., Home Style: House Members in Their Districts, Little, Brown and Company
1982 Allen Schick, Congress and Money: Budgeting, Spending and Taxing, The Urban Institute
1984 James L. Sundquist, The Decline and Resurgence of Congress, Brookings Institution Press
1986 David Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy , The Free Press
1988 Paul Light, Artful Work: The Politics of Social Security Reform, Random House
1990 Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., Signals From the Hill: Congressional Oversight and the Challenge of Social Regulation, Yale University Press
1992 Barbara Sinclair, The Transformation of the U.S. Senate, The Johns Hopkins University Press
1994 Gilbert C. Fite, Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator From Georgia, The University of North Carolina Press
1995 Carol M. Swain, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress, Harvard University Press
1995 John Jacobs, A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton, University of California Press
1996 William Lee Miller, Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress, Alfred A. Knopf
1997 Robert V. Remini, Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time, W. W. Norton and Company
1998 Julian Zelizer, Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975, Cambridge University Press
1999 Frances E. Lee and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation, The University of Chicago Press
2000 Nancy Beck Young, Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American Dream, Southern Methodist University Press
2001 John Aloysius Farrell, Tip O’Neill and the American Century, Little, Brown and Company
2002 Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate , Random House
2003 Don Oberdorfer, Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat, Smithsonian Books
2004 Michael J. Ybarra, Washington Gone Crazy, Steerforth Press
2005 David M. Barrett, The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy, University Press of Kansas
2006 Robert David Johnson, Congress and the Cold War, Cambridge University Press
2007 William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse, While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers, Princeton University Press
2008 Keith Finley, Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938-1965, Louisiana State University Press
2009 Frances E. Lee, Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate, The University of Chicago Press
25th Douglas L. Kriner, "After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War", The University of Chicago Press
26th Eric S. Heberlig and Bruce A. Larson, "Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority Control", The University of Michigan Press
27th Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker, "The American Senate: An Insider’s Guide", Oxford University Press
28th Dr. Rebecca U. Thorpe, "The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending", The University of Chicago Press

Allen Schick is a governance fellow of the Brookings Institution and also a professor of political science at the Maryland School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park. He is known as an authority on budget theory and the federal budget process, in particular. His book, Congress and Money: Budgeting, Spending, and Taxing, won the D.B. Hardeman Prize in 1982.

David M. Oshinsky is an American historian. He is the director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.

Carol Miller Swain is an American conservative television analyst and former professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University. She is the author and editor of eight books. Her scholarly work has been cited by two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her interests include race relations, immigration, representation, evangelical politics, and the United States Constitution.

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References

↑ "D B Hardeman Prize criteria" . Retrieved 25 October 2012.
↑ Hufford, Larry. "HARDEMAN, D. BARNARD, JR". The Handbook of Texas Online.
↑ Hufford, Larry. "Reminiscences of D. B. Hardeman". Tantalus. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
↑ Gillette, Michael L. (May 2008). "Recalling the Ultimate Bibliophile". Humanities Texas. Humanities Texas. Retrieved 24 October 2012.

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[1] "D B Hardeman Prize criteria" . Retrieved 25 October 2012.

[2] Hufford, Larry. "HARDEMAN, D. BARNARD, JR". The Handbook of Texas Online.

[3] Hufford, Larry. "Reminiscences of D. B. Hardeman". Tantalus. Retrieved 24 October 2012.

[4] Gillette, Michael L. (May 2008). "Recalling the Ultimate Bibliophile". Humanities Texas. Humanities Texas. Retrieved 24 October 2012.

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