Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Public

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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The prize was first awarded in 1962.

  1. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by  (Touchstone Books)

    Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb …

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    1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  2. A Bright Shining Lie by 

    Chronicles the military career of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, profiling his military and civilian roles in the Vietnam War.

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    1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  3. And their children after them by 

    This is sort of a sequel to emphasized textLet Us Now Praise Famous Men. It follows the people of …

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    1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  4. The Ants by ,

    This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world’s leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of …

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    1991 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  5. The Prize by 

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    1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  6. Lincoln at Gettysburg by 

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    1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  7. Lenin's Tomb by 

    From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become …

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    1994 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  8. The Beak Of The Finch by 

    Jonathan Weiner's The Beak of the Finch tells the story of two Princeton University students - evolutionary biologists - engaged …

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    1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  9. The Haunted Land by 

    The Haunted Land is a luminous, ground-breaking look at how four newly democratic eastern European nations are dealing with the …

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    1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  10. Ashes To Ashes by 

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    The most important and most riveting work we have yet had from Richard Kluger, whose greatly acclaimed landmark books, Simple …

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    1997 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  11. Guns, Germs and Steel by 

    Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, …

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    1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  12. Annals of the former world by 

    "Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe …

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    1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  13. Embracing Defeat by 

    Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a history book written by John W. Dower and …

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    2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  14. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by 

    In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the …

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    2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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  15. Carry Me Home by 

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    A major work of history, investigative journalism that breaks new ground, and personal memoir, Carry Me Home is a dramatic …

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    2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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