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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The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
The choosing of America's President is one of the world's most mysterious and complicated transactions in power. No troops mass …
Phil in SF says: 1962 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
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The shock of the opening clash in August,1914, and the thirty days of battle which followed determined the future course …
Phil in SF says: 1963 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Anti-Intellectualism in American life by Richard Hofstadter
The American intellectual has usually been regarded with considerable suspiclon or resentment by his countrymen, and in our own times …
Phil in SF says: 1964 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones
In this impressive study one of our foremost cultural historians takes a fresh look at America as it appeared to …
Phil in SF says: 1965 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (The American Seasons, #4)
With the publication of Wandering Through Winter, Edwin Way Teale completes the ambitious project on which he has been …
Phil in SF says: 1966 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
Observing that, at the start of the American Revolution, Negro slavery was a legal institution in the thirteen colonies and …
Phil in SF says: 1967 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Rousseau and Revolution by Will Durant, Ariel Durant (The Story of Civilization, #10)
The publication of Rousseau and Revolution is more than a cause for pleasure for the hundreds of thousands of readers …
Phil in SF says: 1968 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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So Human an Animal by René Dubos
"Each human being," says René Dubos, "is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable." Yet today each of us faces the critical danger of …
Phil in SF says: 1969 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
In 1948 The Naked and the Dead was published. Since then Norman Mailer has entertained enraged, and diverted us with …
Phil in SF says: 1969 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson
Many of the methods of civil disobedience so widely and so sporadically used today have their origin in Mahatma Gandhi's …
Phil in SF says: 1970 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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This monumental narrative history, told primarily from the Japanese viewpoint, traces the dramatic fortunes of modern Japan from the invasion …
Phil in SF says: 1971 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman
BARBARA TUCHMAN, whose previous works have examined World War I and the origins of the world's most violent century, now …
Phil in SF says: 1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers by Robert Coles (Children of Crisis, #2)
This study of the rural poor in the American South is the second volume of Dr. Robert Coles' award-winning Children …
Phil in SF says: 1973 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Phil in SF says: 1973 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald
Much has been written about American involvement in Vietnam. But Fire in the Lake Tells of the Vietnamese themselves and …
Phil in SF says: 1973 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
