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 Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
4 stars
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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4 stars
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
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Ashes To Ashes by Richard Kluger
The most important and most riveting work we have yet had from Richard Kluger, whose greatly acclaimed landmark books, Simple …
Phil in SF says: 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
5 stars
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, …
Phil in SF says: 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
5 stars
Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe …
Phil in SF says: 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower
John Dower's War Without Mercy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, was hailed by The New Republic as …
Phil in SF says: 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the …
Phil in SF says: 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter
A major work of history, investigative journalism that breaks new ground, and personal memoir, Carry Me Home is a dramatic …
Phil in SF says: 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
