Golden Anniversary Book Award
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NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
The NCA Golden Anniversary Book Award was presented until 1987 when it was discontinued. Book award nominations are now directed to the Winans/Wichelns Award or the Diamond Anniversary Book Award Selection Committees.
Year | Award Winner |
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1988 | Award discontinued |
1987 | J. Michael Hogan, The Panama Canal in American Politics (Southern Illinois University Press, 1986). |
Tamar Katriel, Talking Straight: Dugri Speech in Israeli Sabra Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1986). | |
1986 | Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (Oxford University Press, 1985). |
1985 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency (Oxford University Press, 1984). |
1984 | Randall L. Bytwerk, Julius Streicher: The Man who Persuaded a Nation to Hate Jews (Stein and Day, 1983). |
1983 | Charles R. Berger and James J. Bradac, Language and Social Knowledge: Uncertainty in Interpersonal Relations (Edward Arnold, 1982). |
1982 | Carol Wilder, Rigor and Imagination: Essays from the Legacy of Gregory Bateson (Praeger, 1981). |
Franklyn Haiman, Speech and Law in a Free Society (University of Chicago Press, 1981). | |
1981 | George A. Kennedy, Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times (University of North Carolina Press, 1980). |
Susan B. Shimanoff, Communication Rules: Theory and Research (Sage, 1980). | |
1980 | Barnett Baskerville, The People’s Choice: The Orator in American Society (University Press of Kentucky, 1979). |
Gerald R. Miller and Norman E. Fontes, Videotape on Trial: A View from the Jury Box (Sage, 1979). | |
1979 | Charles R. Gruner, Understanding Laughter: The Workings of Wit & Humor (Nelson Hall, 1978). |
1978 | No award given |
1977 | Stephen E. Lucas, Portents of Rebellion (Temple University Press, 1976). |
1976 | Wilbur S. Howell, Poetics, Rhetoric and Logic (Cornell University Press, 1975). |
1975 | James J. Murphy, Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, A History of Rhetorical Theory from St. Augustine to the Renaissance (University of California Press, 1974). |
1974 | No award given |
1973 | George Kennedy, The Arts of Rhetoric in the Roman World, 300 B.C.-A.D. 300 (Princeton University Press 1971). |
1972 | Wilbur S. Howell, Eighteenth-Century British Logic and Rhetoric (Princeton University Press, 1971). |
1971 | Lester Thonssen, A. Craig Baird, and Waldo Braden, Speech Criticism (2nd Ed.) (Ronald Press, 1970). |
1970 | Loren Reid, Charles James Fox: A Man for the People (Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., and University of Missouri Press, 1969). |
1969 | No award given |
1968 | Donald Geiger, The Dramatic Impulse in Modern Poetics (Louisiana State University Press, 1967). |
Karl Wallace, Francis Bacon on the Nature of Man (University of Illinois Press, 1967). | |
1967 | Garff Wilson, A History of American Acting (Indiana University Press, 1966). |
1966 | Edwin Black, Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method (Macmillan, 1965). |
1965 | Francis Hodge, Yankee Theatre: The Image of America on the Stage, 1825-1850 (University of Texas Press, 1964). |