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2024 Distinguished Author Award Recipient: H.W. Brands

December 5, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

H. W. Brands, American historian, is the winner of the 2024 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. A New York Times bestselling author, Brands writes on American history and politics. He has written 30 books, co-authored or edited five others, and published dozens of articles and scores of reviews.

Brands will give a free public presentation on Thursday, December 5 at 5:30 pm at Central Library (5th and Denver in downtown Tulsa). Copies of books by H.W. Brands will be for sale through Magic City Books and Professor Brands will be available for a book signing after his presentation.

His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin and Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt both were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Other titles by Brands include Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American PoliticsThe Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for AmericaOur First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American RevolutionDreams of El Dorado: A History of the American WestThe General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear WarReagan: The LifeWoodrow WilsonThe Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace; and Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times.

His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic Monthly, the Smithsonian, the National Interest, the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, the Political Science QuarterlyAmerican History, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals.

H.W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of various honorary societies, including the Society of American Historians and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is a regular guest on national radio and television programs, and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press.

The Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award is an annual award given by the Tulsa Library Trust and Tulsa City-County Library. Its purpose is to give formal recognition, on behalf of the Tulsa County community, to internationally acclaimed authors who have written a distinguished body of work and made a major contribution to the field of literature and letters. The award consists of a $40,000 cash prize and an engraved crystal book.

Details

Date:
December 5, 2024
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Venue

Central Library
400 Civic Center
Tulsa, OK 74103 United States
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