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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"A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power
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"A Problem from Hell" is a path-breaking interrogation of the last century of American history. Samantha Power poses a question …
Phil in SF says: 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Gulag: a history by Anne Applebaum
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The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972 with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's epic oral history of the …
Phil in SF says: 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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From the managing editor of the Washington Post, a news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in …
Phil in SF says: 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins
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For decades Western imperialists have waged wars and destroyed local populations in the name of civilization and democracy. From 1952 …
Phil in SF says: 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
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A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist …
Phil in SF says: 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedländer
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With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book …
Phil in SF says: 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
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Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, …
Phil in SF says: 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
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This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of …
Phil in SF says: 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years …
Phil in SF says: 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
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One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling …
Phil in SF says: 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction
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Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
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Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark …
Phil in SF says: 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. A richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice in the Florida town of Groveland in 1949, involving four black men falsely accused of rape and drawing a civil rights crusader, and eventual Supreme Court justice, into the legal battle.
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The riveting true story of sixty years in the life of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River …
Phil in SF says: 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. A book that deftly combines investigative reporting and historical research to probe a New Jersey seashore town's cluster of childhood cancers linked to water and air pollution.
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The sixth extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
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From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, …
Phil in SF says: 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. An exploration of nature that forces readers to consider the threat posed by human behavior to a world of astonishing diversity.
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In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first …
Phil in SF says: 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. A deeply reported book of remarkable clarity showing how the flawed rationale for the Iraq War led to the explosive growth of the Islamic State.
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From Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the …
Phil in SF says: 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty.
