Golden Anniversary Book Award

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
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).