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Holly Metz’s book Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression has been selected to receive the New Jersey Council for the Humanities’ (NJCH) annual Book Award.
Each year the Council presents an award to an outstanding humanities book on a New Jersey subject or written by an author with New Jersey ties.
Holly Metz's Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression has been awarded the New Jersey Historical Commission’s Richard P. McCormick Prize.
The prize is given every other year to the author of an outstanding scholarly book on New Jersey history published during the preceding two years.
Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression by Holly Metz has been selected to receive the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award in the scholarly non-fiction category.
"Metz’s well-rounded historical portrait possesses a genuine human center..."
Read the full review on PublishersWeekly.com.