Вручение 19 июня 2020 г. — стр. 2
Страна: США
Место проведения: Рапид-Сити, Южная Дакота
Дата проведения: 19 июня 2020 г.
Лучший первый роман
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Шеннон Пуфаль
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The New York Times, Real Simple, Electric Literature, and more.
“Cinematic . . . The spaces she creates for her characters . . . have the aura of realms.” —The New York Times Book Review
A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West.
Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk. Meanwhile, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof, and falling in love with Henry, a young card cheat. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another.
On Swift Horses is a debut of astonishing power: a story of love and luck, of two people trying to find their place in a country that is coming apart even as it promised them everything.
Лучшая западная научно-популярная историческая литература
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Пекка Хямяляйнен
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The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s history
This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas’ roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America’s great commercial artery, and then—in what was America’s first sweeping westward expansion—as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains.
The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen’s deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.
Лучшая современная западная научно-популярная литература
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Dayton Duncan, Kenneth Burns
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The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019
This gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today.
But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of music that lies at the very center of the American experience.
Дэвид Кроу
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Маленький Дэвид Кроу всегда восхищался своим отцом Терстоном — бесшабашным и неутомимым рабочим, рассказывающим красочные истории о подвигах на войне, своей родословной, восходящей к храбрым индейцам-навахо, и своих приключениях. Но становясь старше, Дэвид стал замечать и другую, пугающую сторону его личности: бывший зэк со склонностью к насилию, живущий по своим правилам, терроризирующий свою семью. Бандитизм, постоянные переезды, жизнь в беднейшей индейской резервации, беспризорность и издевательства — вот чем пришлось расплачиваться детям Терстона за его выходки. Мать Дэвида постепенно сходит с ума, а сам он под угрозой избиения вынужден участвовать в криминальных делах отца. И не может противостоять ему даже во взрослом возрасте, пока дело не доходит до самого страшного… Кинематографичная и искренняя, "Бледнолицая ложь" — это драматическая сага о силе духа, взрослении, ненависти и прощении. История Дэвида Кроу показывает: каким бы трудным и мрачным ни было твое детство, надежда возрождается из пепла.
Лучшая западная биография
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Дайана Аллен Курис
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Author Diana Allen Kouris, a native of Brown's Park, utilized her personal and family connections, along with years of research, to meticulously and extensively record the fascinating life events of Ann Bassett. Kouris includes never-before-published photographs. Ann Bassett was known as the Queen of the Cattle Rustlers, although she was never convicted. Queen Ann, as she was called, lived a life full of adventure and controversy in the Brown s Park region of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. She broke bread with Butch Cassidy, had her life turned upside down by notorious range detective Tom Horn, and stood tall against cattle baron Ora Haley. Anyone with an interest in Western History will want this comprehensive book!
Марк Джонсон
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Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential—and controversial—members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated power—whether economic, military, or executive—he consistently acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political fabric of twentieth-century America.
Wheeler came of political age amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, during World War I. As a crusading United States attorney, he battled Montana’s powerful economic interests, championed farmers and miners, and won election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. There he made his name as one of the “Montana scandalmongers,” uncovering corruption in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Drawing on extensive research and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson follows Wheeler from his early backing of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support of the New Deal to his forceful opposition to Roosevelt’s plan to expand the Supreme Court and, in a move widely viewed as political suicide, his emergence as the most prominent spokesman against U.S. involvement in World War II right up to three days before Pearl Harbor.
Johnson provides the most thorough telling of Wheeler’s entire career, including all its accomplishments and contradictions, as well as the political storms that the senator both encouraged and endured. The book convincingly establishes the place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American political history.
Лучшая западная научно-популярная литература для детей
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Дэвид Хеска Уэнбли Уэйден
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This biography of Spotted Tail traces the life of the famous Lakota leader who expertly guided his people through a pivotal and tumultuous time in their nation's history as they fought and then negotiated with the U.S. government. Spotted Tail is remembered for his unique leadership style and deep love for his people. Today, a university is named in his honor.
Лучшая первая научно-популярная книга
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Дэвид Кроу
4.0
Маленький Дэвид Кроу всегда восхищался своим отцом Терстоном — бесшабашным и неутомимым рабочим, рассказывающим красочные истории о подвигах на войне, своей родословной, восходящей к храбрым индейцам-навахо, и своих приключениях. Но становясь старше, Дэвид стал замечать и другую, пугающую сторону его личности: бывший зэк со склонностью к насилию, живущий по своим правилам, терроризирующий свою семью. Бандитизм, постоянные переезды, жизнь в беднейшей индейской резервации, беспризорность и издевательства — вот чем пришлось расплачиваться детям Терстона за его выходки. Мать Дэвида постепенно сходит с ума, а сам он под угрозой избиения вынужден участвовать в криминальных делах отца. И не может противостоять ему даже во взрослом возрасте, пока дело не доходит до самого страшного… Кинематографичная и искренняя, "Бледнолицая ложь" — это драматическая сага о силе духа, взрослении, ненависти и прощении. История Дэвида Кроу показывает: каким бы трудным и мрачным ни было твое детство, надежда возрождается из пепла.
Лучший западный рассказчик (Иллюстрированная детская книга)
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Ваунда Мишо Нельсон
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In 1911, three men were in the final round of the famed Pendleton Round-Up. One was white, one was Indian, and one was black. When the judges declared the white man the winner, the audience was outraged. They named black cowboy George Fletcher the "people's champion" and took up a collection, ultimately giving Fletcher far more than the value of the prize that went to the official winner. Award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson tells the story of Fletcher's unlikely triumph with a Western twang that will delight kids--and adults--who love true stories, unlikely heroes, and cowboy tales.
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