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University of Richmond history professor is a finalist for the National Book Award

October 10, 2007

Woody Holton, associate professor of history at the University of Richmond, has been named a nonfiction finalist for the 2007 National Book Awards for his work "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution."

Holton's book presents a new perspective on the framers' motivations for drafting the U.S. Constitution—to make America attractive for investment and take power away from the states and the people—and the history of the average Americans who forced revisions that created the document we know today.

The National Book Awards were established in 1950 to recognize American literary excellence in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Young people's literature was later added as a category. Finalists receive a bronze medal and a $1,000 cash award. Winners will be announced Nov. 14 at the National Book Awards benefit dinner and ceremony in Manhattan.