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The First Annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize was made possible by the generous support of Southern California Gas Company.

Last April, Zócalo Public Square announced the launch of an annual book prize, to be awarded to the book that most effectively-and most creatively, strikingly, or enjoyably-enhances our understanding of community. The only firm rules about the sort of entries that could be submitted were these: the book had to be non-fiction, U.S.-based, and published in 2010. The candidates that made it out of thousands into our initial round of 80 …