McNamara's war biography earns top honor in American history

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McNamara's war biography earns top honor in American history
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A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize. Philip and William Taubman’s “McNamara at War” is this year’s winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History. The New York Historical announced the award Monday.

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