We are pleased to announce that four of our books received 2015 INDIEFAB Awards and two books were finalists. Thousands of books are entered in the contest sponsored by Foreword Reviews each year to be judged by a select group of librarians and booksellers from across the country. IU Press books won one silver and three honorable mention awards, along with two finalists. Our winners include:
Silver Winner for Political Science
The Snowden Reader
Edited by David P. Fidler
Foreword by Sumit Ganguly
When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden’s disclosures and their aftermath.
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Honorable Mention for Regional
Indiana State Parks: A Centennial Celebration
Matt Williams
Stunning photographs mark the centennial of the Hoosier state park system with a visual celebration of the parks’ scenery, wildlife, recreation, and history.
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Honorable Mention for Performing Arts & Music
White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan
Tom Rice
By examining rich archival materials including a film series produced by the Klan and a wealth of documents, newspaper clippings, and manuals, Rice uncovers the fraught history of the Klan as a local force that manipulated the American film industry to extend its reach across the country.
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Honorable Mention for Biography
John Bartlow Martin: A Voice for the Underdog
Ray E. Boomhower
During the 1940s and 1950s, one name, John Bartlow Martin, dominated the pages of the “big slicks.” Over a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his peers lauded him as “the best living reporter,” the “ablest crime reporter in America,” and “one of America’s premier seekers of fact.”
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Finalist for Performing Arts & Music
New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene
Tamar Barzel
Though relatively fleeting in rock history, the "RJC moment" forged a new vision of Jewish identity in the contemporary world, one that sought to restore the bond between past and present, to interrogate the limits of racial and gender categories, and to display the tensions between secularism and observance, traditional values and contemporary concerns.
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Finalist for Popular Culture
Letters to Santa Claus
The Elves
Foreword by Pat Koch, Head Elf
Afterword by Emily Weisner Thompson
Over 80 years of letters and envelopes addressed to Santa Claus capture the hopes and dreams of children and adults. “A touching gift book that also offers an unusual window into American history.”—Library Journal
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Congratulations to all the winners!
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