Wilmington, DE, Jan. 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) today announced the finalists for the Paolucci Book Award, which will recognize the best book published in 2016 or 2017 that advances conservative principles.
This prestigious annual award comes with a $5,000 cash prize and is named in memory of the distinguished scholars Henry and Anne Paolucci. The finalists are:
- Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (Doubleday)
- Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Sentinel)
- Arthur Herman, 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder (Harper)
- Yuval Levin, The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism (Basic Books)
In announcing the finalists, ISI president Charlie Copeland said: “The sad truth is that major book prizes like the Pulitzer and the National Book Award might as well put up a sign that says, NO CONSERVATIVES NEED APPLY. That’s why ISI has annually presented the Paolucci Book Award for well over a decade: to give conservative authors and conservative ideas their due recognition.” Past winners of the Paolucci Award include Bradley J. Birzer for Russell Kirk: American Conservative, Richard Brookhiser for Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Hannan for Inventing Freedom, Brad S. Gregory for The Unintended Reformation, and Pauline Maier for Ratification.
ISI’s selection committee chose this year’s finalists from among more than 130 nominees. A distinguished panel of outside judges will select the winner. The panel includes: Amity Shlaes, author of Coolidge and The Forgotten Man; Angelo M. Codevilla, author of Advice to War Presidents (winner of the 2010 Paolucci Book Award); Serphin Maltese, former chairman of the Conservative Party of New York; Clara Sarrocco, executive director of the Council on National Literatures; Matthew A. Pauley, chair of political science and legal studies at Manhattanville College; and Ronald F. Docksai, president of the Walter Bagehot Council.
The winner will be announced in February. The winning author will receive a $5,000 cash award and will deliver ISI’s annual Paolucci Book Award lecture at a dinner in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 7.
For more information, go to paolucci.isi.org or
contact Jed Donahue at 302-524-6165 or jdonahue@isi.org.
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