Political Science alumnus Andrew Preston wins $25,000 non-fiction prize

March 5, 2013

Andrew Preston was named winner of the prestigious Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction for Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy. “Fluently written, comprehensively researched and scrupulously balanced, Preston’s (book) describes how the foreign policy of the United States has been and is influenced, alternately decisively and marginally, by the fact that so many Americans regard themselves as a people chosen to do God’s work . . . and because American leaders all the way from Lincoln to George W. Bush have used religious convictions to justify political acts,” the citation says.

Preston will be touring select cities across Canada, speaking at events in his honour, such as Toronto’s International Festival of Authors.

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