PRESENTING : THE HENRY PAOLUCCI / WALTER BAGEHOT BOOK AWARD
The 2009 ISI Henry Paolucci Book Award
T H E 2008 H E N R Y P A O L U C C I / W A L T E R B A G E H O T B O O K A W A R D
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The 2008 ISI Henry Paolucci Book Award
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(302) 524-6167 media@isi.orgANGELO M. CODEVILLA, AUTHOR OF ADVICE TO WAR PRESIDENTS, WINNER OF THE ISI 2010 HENRY PAOLUCCI/WALTER BAGEHOT BOOK AWARD
Wilmington, DE—September 15, 2010—The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a national educational organization headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, is pleased to announce that Angelo M. Codevilla is the recipient of the prestigious 2010 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award, for his book Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft (Basic Books). Professor Codevilla will accept the award and give a public lecture on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. at the Greenville Country Club, 201 Owls Nest Road, Wilmington, Delaware. A light reception will follow.
Angelo Codevilla is professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University and has taught political theory and international relations at Princeton and Georgetown. A former Foreign Service officer, he is the author of the book winner Advice to War Presidents, as well as The Character of Nations, a translation of Machiavelli’s The Prince, and other books.
Also receiving special recognition as finalists for the Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Award, are the following:
● Persian Dreams: Moscow and Tehran Since the Fall of the Shah (Potomac Books) by John W. Parker
● The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789 - 2008 (Harvard University Press)
by Lucas A. Powe, Jr.
● The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History (Yale University Press) by Patrick Allitt Ph.D.
This prestigious award was first launched by the Walter Bagehot Research Council, an organization founded by Professor Henry Paolucci in the late sixties, and beginning in 2004, the annual award has been presented by ISI. The award recognizes and advances the scholarly and journalistic achievements of Henry Paolucci and Walter Bagehot by honoring each year one book that embodies the humane and liberal spirit of these two men of letters. Books from a range of humanistic disciplines—including but not limited to American foreign policy, political science (especially political philosophy), higher education in the United States, English literature and comparative literature (nonfiction only), intellectual history, the future of the humanities, history, philosophy, and the history of science—are eligible for selection.
Founded in 1953, ISI works “to educate for liberty”—to help further in successive generations of college students an appreciation of the economic, political, and moral principles that sustain a free and humane society. For more information on ISI, or the book award, please visit www.isi.org or contact Carol Houseal at (302) 524-6167 or media@isi.org.
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The 2010 ISI Henry Paolucci Book Award
Press Release, from the ISI Website: http://www.isi.org/media/content/paolucci_9-15-10.pdf
ONLINE - HENRY PAOLUCCI BOOK AWARD LECTURES AND VIDEOS
by Derek Beales — November 2004
by D. Medina Lasansky — March 2006
by Andrew Roberts — October 2007
by Charles Taylor — October 2008
by Philip Hamburger — October 2009
The 2004 ISI Henry Paolucci Book Award
The 2007 ISI Henry Paolucci Book Award
The 2006 ISI Henry Paolucci Book Award
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Contact: Carol HousealWinner of ISI’s 2008 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award, Charles Taylor, To Speak for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Award winning author will receive $5,000 cash award and give a lecture at the Greenville Country Club
Wilmington, DE—September 15, 2008—The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a national educational organization headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2008 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award: Charles Taylor, author of A Secular Age.
Professor Charles Taylor will give a public lecture at the Greenville Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware, on Thursday, October 30, 2008, at 5:30 p.m. The award presentation and reception will follow.
Charles Taylor, a world renowned philosopher, is professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize. His book A Secular Age has been named the Publishers Weekly best book of 2007, and it earned the 2008 Christianity Today book award for history/biography. In addition, it has been selected as best book of the year by Globe and Mail and Tablet. Taylor is the author of numerous essays and more than a dozen other books, including The Ethics of Authenticity, Philosophical Arguments, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, and Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill and Balliol College at Oxford University, as well as a masters and Ph.D. (D.Phil.) from Oxford. He is the first Canadian to win the Templeton Prize.
This prestigious award was first launched by the Walter Bagehot Research Council, an organization founded by Professor Henry Paolucci in the late sixties, and beginning in 2004, the annual award has been presented by ISI. The award recognizes and advances the scholarly and journalistic achievements of Henry Paolucci and Walter Bagehot by honoring each year one book that embodies the humane and liberal spirit of these two men of letters. Books from a range of humanistic disciplines—including but not limited to American foreign policy, political science (especially political philosophy), higher education in the United States, English literature and comparative literature (nonfiction only), intellectual history, the future of the humanities, history, philosophy, and the history of science—are eligible for selection.
Founded in 1953, ISI works to “educate for liberty”—to identify the best and the brightest college students and to nurture in these future leaders the American ideal of ordered liberty. For more information on ISI, the book award, or this event, please visit www.isi.org or contact Carol Houseal at (800) 526-7022 ext. 167 or media@isi.org.
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The 2011 ISI Henry Paolucci Book Award
