Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History

The Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History is an annual prize established in 1986 and given by The New York Council of the Navy League of the United States, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and the Theodore Roosevelt Association. It is given for the best book on American naval history published in the previous calendar year. The prize commemorates Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who both served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and who both supported the United States Navy as Presidents of the United States.

The judges for the prize include specialists in naval history such as faculty members at the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Naval War College, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, U.S. Military Academy, The Citadel, and Princeton University.

List of Prize Winners

1986 Ronald Spector, "Eagle Against the Sun", (Vintage Books, 1985) 1987 Edward L. Beach, Jr., "The United States Navy: 200 Years", (Henry Holt, 1986) 1988 Robert Erwin Johnson, "Guardians of the Sea: A History of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present", (Naval Institute Press, 1987) 1989 James R. Reckner, "Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet: The World Cruise of the American Battle Fleet, 1907-1909", (Naval Institute Press, 1988) 1990 B. Mitchell Simpson, III, "Admiral Harold R. Stark: Architect of Victory, 1939-1945", (University of South Carolina Press, 1989) 1991 Francis Duncan, "Rickover and the Nuclear Navy: The Discipline of Technology", (Naval Institute Press, 1990) 1992 Edward Miller, "War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945", (Naval Institute Press, 1991) 1993 Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley, "Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal", (Knopf, 1992) 1994 Gary Weir, "Forged in War: The Naval-Industrial Complex and American Submarine Construction, 1940-1961", (Naval Historical Center, 1993) 1995 Joseph H. Alexander, "Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa" (Naval Institute Press, 1995) 1996 Raimondo Luraghi, "The History of the Confederate Navy", (Naval Institute Press, 1996) 1997 James McPherson and Patricia McPherson, "Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, USN", (Oxford University Press, 1997) 1998 Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew, with Annette Lawrence Drew, "Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage", (Public Affairs Press, 1998) 1999 Edward Marolda and Robert J. Schneller, Jr., "Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War", (United States Naval Institute, 1999) 2000 Bill Gilbert, "Ship of Miracles", (Triumph Books, 2000) 2001 John H. Schroeder, "Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat", (Naval Institute Press, 2001) 2002 Greg Kennedy, "Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East 1933-1939", (Frank Cass Publishers, 2001) 2003 Nathaniel Philbrick, "Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842", (Viking, 2003) 2004 Spencer Tucker, "Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring", (Naval Institute Press, 2004) 2005 Craig Symonds, "Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History", (Oxford University Press, 2005)

2006 Evan Thomas, "Sea of Thunder: Four Naval Commanders and the Last Sea War" (2006)

2007 William N. Still, Jr., "Crisis at Sea: the United States Navy in European waters in World War I", University Press of Florida, 2006.

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* [http://www.feri.org/common/news/info_detail.cfm?QID=1986&ClientID=11005 | Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute]

* [http://www.nynavyleague.org/index.cfm/programs/roosevelt-naval-history-prize/objectid:0DA489A6-3048-2C1A-9AB6DF557DC5B5E6 | New York Council Navy League of the United States]