Johns Hopkins Book Award
2013 Books
by Kathleen Waters Sander
As the youngest child and only daughter of the B& O Railroad mogul John Work Garrett, Mary Elizabeth Garrett was bright and capable, well suited to become her father’s heir apparent. But social convention through the turbulent years of the Civil War to the early 20th century prohibited her from following in his footsteps. As Sander recounts, Mary turned her attentions to promoting women’s rights, using her status and massive wealth to advance her vision for women’s place in the expanding United States. She contributed the endowment to establish the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with two unprecedented conditions: that women be admitted on the same terms as men and that the school be graduate level, thereby forcing revolutionary policy changes at the male-run institution. Suffragist, friend of charitable causes, and champion of women's education, Mary Elizabeth Garrett both improved the status of women and ushered in modern standards of American medicine and philanthropy. Read more…
"An important, richly detailed biography of a formidable nineteenth-century woman who worked in a man's world to help women attain education, suffrage, and equality."—Christine Woyshner, Journal of American History
edited by Francis Fukuyama
Bestselling author Francis Fukuyama brings together esteemed academics, political analysts, and practitioners to reflect on the U.S. experience with nation-building, from its historical underpinnings to its modern-day consequences. The United States has sought on repeated occasions to reconstruct states damaged by conflict, from Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War to Japan and Germany after World War II, to the ongoing rebuilding of Iraq. Despite this rich experience, there has been remarkably little systematic effort to learn lessons on how outside powers can assist in the building of strong and self-sufficient states in post-conflict situations. The contributors to this volume dissect mistakes, false starts, and lessons learned from the cases of Afghanistan and Iraq within the broader context of reconstruction efforts in other parts of the world, including Latin America, Japan, and the Balkans. Read more…
"This is an important collection, indeed, offering a clear analysis of the lessons of the past, mistakes made in the present, and humane yet pragmatic recommendations for the future."—Fatima Raja, McGill International Review
edited by John T. Irwin and Jean McGarry
So the Story Goes gathers the best short fiction of the series, works exhibiting wit, elegance, and wisdom. Writing about a wide variety of subjects and in a multitude of styles, the twenty writers collected in this book share a mastery of language and an extraordinary ability to entertain. Read more…
"The stories are written with a high literary competence, some are virtuoso performances."—Baltimore Sun
