History of American Revolution’s losers wins $50,000

• By Ron Charles - The Washington Post

Historian Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, author of “The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire” (Yale University Press). (Washington College)

Enough about us. How did the Brits feel about the American Revolution?
That’s essentially the question historian Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy set out to answer, and now his book, “The Men Who Lost America” (Yale University Press), has won the George Washington Book Prize — snatching victory from the jaws of a very old defeat.

The $50,000 award, announced at a ceremony at Mount Vernon on Tuesday night, honors the previous year’s best book about early American history. The prize is sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

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