UO law professor Garrett Epps won the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction in the 2007 Oregon Book Awards. Epps won for his "Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America," which a judge described as “smart, stylish, dramatic, probing, vivid, and moral.”
UO sociology professor John Bellamy Foster and English professor Ben Saunders were finalists in the same category. Read the announcement detailing all seven 2007 winners. The awards ceremony was Dec. 2 in Portland. (Also, read the coverage in the Register-Guard)
Book by Epps scores 2007 Oregon Book Award
