The D. B. Hardeman Prize is a cash prize awarded annually by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for the best book that furthers the study of the U.S. Congress in the fields of biography, history, journalism, or political science. Submissions are judged on the basis of five criteria: (1) contribution to scholarship, (2) contribution to the public's understanding of Congress, (3) literary craftsmanship, (4) originality, and (5) depth of research. Members of the national selection committee are: Senator Tom Daschle; Lee Hamilton, Director of The Center on Congress; Thomas Mann of The Brookings Institution; Leslie Sanchez of Impacto Group; and Nancy Beck Young of The University of Houston.[1]

D. Barnard Hardeman, Jr. (1914–1981) was a politician, political scholar, journalist and teacher. He graduated from the University of Texas and the University of Texas Law School and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Hardeman served in the 52nd and 54th Legislatures representing Grayson and Collin counties in the Texas House of Representatives.[2] Between 1958 and 1961, he worked as an assistant to Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, and was Rayburn's official biographer.[3] An avid bibliophile whose book collection numbered more than ten thousand volumes,[4] Hardeman bequeathed his collection of American biographies and political history to the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.

Recipients

# Year Author Title Publisher
01 1980 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Home Style: House Members in Their Districts Little, Brown and Company
02 1982 Allen Schick Congress and Money: Budgeting, Spending and Taxing The Urban Institute
03 1984 James L. Sundquist The Decline and Resurgence of Congress Brookings Institution Press
04 1986 David Oshinsky A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy The Free Press
05 1988 Paul Light Artful Work: The Politics of Social Security Reform Random House
06 1990 Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. Signals From the Hill: Congressional Oversight and the Challenge of Social Regulation Yale University Press
07 1992 Barbara Sinclair The Transformation of the U.S. Senate The Johns Hopkins University Press
08 1994 Gilbert C. Fite Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator From Georgia The University of North Carolina Press
09 1995 Carol M. Swain Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress Harvard University Press
10 1995 John Jacobs A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton University of California Press
11 1996 William Lee Miller Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress Alfred A. Knopf
12 1997 Robert V. Remini Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time W. W. Norton and Company
13 1998 Julian E. Zelizer Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975 Cambridge University Press
14 1999 Frances E. Lee and Bruce I. Oppenheimer Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation The University of Chicago Press
15 2000 Nancy Beck Young Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American Dream Southern Methodist University Press
16 2001 John Aloysius Farrell Tip O’Neill and the American Century Little, Brown and Company
17 2002 Robert Caro The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate Random House
18 2003 Don Oberdorfer Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat Smithsonian Books
19 2004 Michael J. Ybarra Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt Steerforth Press
20 2005 David M. Barrett The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy University Press of Kansas
21 2006 Robert David Johnson Congress and the Cold War Cambridge University Press
22 2007 William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers Princeton University Press
23 2008 Keith Finley Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938–1965 Louisiana State University Press
24 2009 Frances E. Lee Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate The University of Chicago Press
25 2013 Douglas L. Kriner After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War The University of Chicago Press
26 2014 Eric S. Heberlig and Bruce A. Larson Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority Control The University of Michigan Press
27 2015 Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker The American Senate: An Insider’s Guide Oxford University Press
28 2016 Rebecca U. Thorpe The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending The University of Chicago Press
29 2018 Julian E. Zelizer The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society Penguin Press
30 2019 Fergus M. Bordewich The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government Simon & Schuster
31 2020 Ruth Bloch Rubin Building the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the U.S. Congress Cambridge University Press
32 2021 David Bateman, Ira Katznelson and John Lapinski Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction Princeton University Press

References

  1. ↑ "D B Hardeman Prize criteria". Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
  2. ↑ Hufford, Larry. "HARDEMAN, D. BARNARD, JR". The Handbook of Texas Online.
  3. ↑ Hufford, Larry. "Reminiscences of D. B. Hardeman". Tantalus. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  4. ↑ Gillette, Michael L. (May 2008). "Recalling the Ultimate Bibliophile". Humanities Texas. Humanities Texas. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
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