Award News - A Culture of Improvement selected as finalist for ISI Book Award

Robert Friedel’s A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millenium was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Henry Paolucci / Walter Bagehot Book Award given by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

More information about the award (along with the winner and other finalists) can be found at http://www.isi.org/spotlight/bagehot_paolucci/award.html.

“This prestigious award was first launched by the Walter Bagehot Research Council, an organization founded by Professor Henry Paolucci in the late sixties,and beginning in 2004, the annual award has been presented by ISI. The award recognizes and advances the scholarly  and journalistic achievements of Henry Paolucci and Walter Bagehot by honoring each year the book that embodies the humane and liberal spirit of these two men of letters. Books from a  range of humanistic disciplines—including but not limited to American foreign policy, political science (especially political philosophy), higher education in the United States, English literature and comparative literature (nonfiction only), intellectual history,the future of the humanities, history, philosophy, and the history of science—are eligible for selection.   

Founded in 1953, ISI works to “educate for liberty”—to identify the best and the brightest college students and to nurture in these future leaders the American ideal of ordered Liberty.”