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.
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. Between 1958 and 1961, he worked as an assistant to Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, and was Rayburn's official biographer. An avid bibliophile whose book collection numbered more than ten thousand volumes, Hardeman bequeathed his collection of American biographies and political history to the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.
Recipients #YearAuthorTitlePublisher011980Richard F. Fenno Jr.Home Style: House Members in Their DistrictsLittle, Brown and Company021982Allen SchickCongress and Money: Budgeting, Spending and TaxingThe Urban Institute031984James L. SundquistThe Decline and Resurgence of CongressBrookings Institution Press041986David OshinskyA Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthyThe Free Press051988Paul LightArtful Work: The Politics of Social Security ReformRandom House061990Christopher H. Foreman, Jr.Signals From the Hill: Congressional Oversight and the Challenge of Social RegulationYale University Press071992Barbara SinclairThe Transformation of the U.S. SenateThe Johns Hopkins University Press081994Gilbert C. FiteRichard B. Russell, Jr., Senator From GeorgiaThe University of North Carolina Press091995Carol M. SwainBlack Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in CongressHarvard University Press101995John JacobsA Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip BurtonUniversity of California Press111996William Lee MillerArguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States CongressAlfred A. Knopf121997Robert V. ReminiDaniel Webster: The Man and His TimeW. W. Norton and Company131998Julian E. ZelizerTaxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975Cambridge University Press141999Frances E. Lee and Bruce I. OppenheimerSizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal RepresentationThe University of Chicago Press152000Nancy Beck YoungWright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American DreamSouthern Methodist University Press162001John Aloysius FarrellTip O’Neill and the American CenturyLittle, Brown and Company172002Robert CaroThe Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the SenateRandom House182003Don OberdorferSenator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and DiplomatSmithsonian Books192004Michael J. YbarraWashington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist HuntSteerforth Press202005David M. BarrettThe CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to KennedyUniversity Press of Kansas212006Robert David Johnson Congress and the Cold WarCambridge University Press222007William G. Howell and Jon C. PevehouseWhile Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War PowersPrinceton University Press232008Keith FinleyDelaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938–1965Louisiana State University Press242009Frances E. LeeBeyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. SenateThe University of Chicago Press252013Douglas L. KrinerAfter the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging WarThe University of Chicago Press262014Eric S. Heberlig and Bruce A. LarsonCongressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority ControlThe University of Michigan Press272015Neil MacNeil and Richard A. BakerThe American Senate: An Insider’s GuideOxford University Press282016Rebecca U. ThorpeThe American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military SpendingThe University of Chicago Press292018Julian E. ZelizerThe Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great SocietyPenguin Press302019Fergus M. BordewichThe First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the GovernmentSimon & Schuster312020Ruth Bloch RubinBuilding the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the U.S. CongressCambridge University Press322021David Bateman, Ira Katznelson and John LapinskiSouthern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after ReconstructionPrinceton University Press
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