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, or 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]

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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.

Recipients

#YearAuthorTitlePublisher
011980 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Home Style: House Members in Their Districts Little, Brown and Company
021982 Allen Schick Congress and Money: Budgeting, Spending and Taxing The Urban Institute
031984 James L. Sundquist The Decline and Resurgence of Congress Brookings Institution Press
041986 David Oshinsky A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy The Free Press
051988 Paul Light Artful Work: The Politics of Social Security Reform Random House
061990 Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. Signals From the Hill: Congressional Oversight and the Challenge of Social Regulation Yale University Press
071992 Barbara Sinclair The Transformation of the U.S. Senate The Johns Hopkins University Press
081994 Gilbert C. Fite Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator From Georgia The University of North Carolina Press
091995 Carol M. Swain Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress Harvard University Press
101995 John Jacobs A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton University of California Press
111996 William Lee Miller Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress Alfred A. Knopf
121997 Robert V. Remini Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time W. W. Norton and Company
131998 Julian E. Zelizer Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975 Cambridge University Press
141999 Frances E. Lee and Bruce I. Oppenheimer Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation The University of Chicago Press
152000 Nancy Beck Young Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American Dream Southern Methodist University Press
162001 John Aloysius Farrell Tip O’Neill and the American Century Little, Brown and Company
172002 Robert Caro The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate Random House
182003 Don Oberdorfer Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat Smithsonian Books
192004 Michael J. Ybarra Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist HuntSteerforth Press
202005 David M. Barrett The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy University Press of Kansas
212006 Robert David Johnson Congress and the Cold War Cambridge University Press
222007 William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers Princeton University Press
232008 Keith Finley Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938–1965 Louisiana State University Press
242009 Frances E. Lee Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate The University of Chicago Press
252013 Douglas L. Kriner After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War The University of Chicago Press
262014 Eric S. Heberlig and Bruce A. Larson Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority Control The University of Michigan Press
272015 Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker The American Senate: An Insider’s Guide Oxford University Press
282016 Rebecca U. Thorpe The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending The University of Chicago Press
292018 Julian E. Zelizer The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society Penguin Press
302019 Fergus M. Bordewich The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government Simon & Schuster
312020 Ruth Bloch Rubin Building the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the U.S. Congress Cambridge University Press
322021David Bateman, Ira Katznelson and John Lapinski Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction Princeton University Press

References

  1. ↑ "D B Hardeman Prize criteria". Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. 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. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
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