Books on slavery and immigration among Lukas project winners

Books on slavery and immigration among Lukas project winners

This image released by Viking shows "After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America" by Jessica Goudeau, winner of the Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000 honor for a socially or politically themed work. (Viking via AP)NEW YORK โ€“ Books about slavery, immigration and drug treatment are among this year's winners of awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Project. Jessica Goudeau's โ€œAfter the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in Americaโ€ won the Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000 honor for a socially or politically themed work which demonstrates โ€œliterary grace, commitment to serious research, and original reporting.โ€The Mark Lynton History Prize, also worth $10,000, was given to William G. Thomas III for โ€œA Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nationโ€™s Founding to the Civil War.โ€On Wednesday, the Lukas project also announced two work-in-progress awards, each with a $25,000 cash prize to help with the book's completion: Emily Dufton, for โ€œAddiction, Inc.: How the Corporate Takeover of Americaโ€™s Treatment Industry Created a Profitable Epidemicโ€ and Casey Parks, for โ€œDiary Of a Misfit." AdThe Lukas project, based at Columbia University, is named for the late investigative reporter and author. The awards were established in 1998 and have previously been given to Robert Caro, Isabel Wilkerson and Jill Lepore among others.