Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The prize was first awarded in 1962.
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Public
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Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years
Twenty years …
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan
"Shortly after midnight on Friday, June 16, 1978, Sylvia Frumkin decided to take a bath. Miss Frumkin, a heavy, ungainly …
Phil in SF says: 1983 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the …
Phil in SF says: 1984 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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"The Good War" by Studs Terkel - duplicate
"The Good War" is Studs Terkel's most exciting, most popular, and most moving book, an account of the lives of …
Phil in SF says: 1985 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas
1968-a time of unprecedented social activism, a time when new political responsibilities and intense personal dedication seemed to presage real …
Phil in SF says: 1986 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler
In this monumental work, David K. Shipler, award-winning correspondent for The New York Times, examines the intricate relation ships and …
Phil in SF says: 1987 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
The Making of the Atomic Bomb is brilliant history, a book that can be compared in its sweep and importance …
Phil in SF says: 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
A Bright Shining Lie-sixteen years in the making is a monumental account of Vietnam by a prizewinning journalist who was …
Phil in SF says: 1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson
In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael S. Williamson return to the land and …
Phil in SF says: 1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Ants by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson
This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world’s leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of …
Phil in SF says: 1991 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Is the grand tradition of epic storytelling. The Prize tells the panoramic history of oil and the struggle for wealth …
Phil in SF says: 1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills
The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked …
Phil in SF says: 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become …
Phil in SF says: 1994 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Beak Of The Finch by Jonathan Weiner
Jonathan Weiner's The Beak of the Finch tells the story of two Princeton University students - evolutionary biologists - engaged …
Phil in SF says: 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg
The Haunted Land is a luminous, ground-breaking look at how four newly democratic eastern European nations are dealing with the …
Phil in SF says: 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
