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Pulitzer Winners: General Non-fiction
Winners in the General Non Fiction category of the Pulitzer Prize.

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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond 17 people voted »
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright 9 people voted »
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Gen...
by Samantha Power 6 people voted »
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4
The Guns of August
The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman 6 people voted »
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5
The Making of the President 1960
The Making of the President 1960
by Theodore H. White 6 people voted »
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6
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard 5 people voted »
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
by Susan Sheehan 4 people voted »
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9
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and Americ...
by Neil Sheehan 4 people voted »
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10
A Good War: Oral History of WWII
A Good War: Oral History of WWII
by Studs Terkel 4 people voted »
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11
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & ...
by Daniel Yergin 4 people voted »
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13
Gulag: A History
Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum 3 people voted »
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14
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afgh...
by Steve Coll 3 people voted »
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15
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolut...
by Carl Sagan 3 people voted »
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16
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade Am...
by Garry Wills 3 people voted »
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16
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
by David K. Shipler 3 people voted »
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18
On Human Nature
On Human Nature
by Edward O. Wilson 3 people voted »
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19
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
by Carl E. Schorske 3 people voted »
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20
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
by Richard Hofstadter 3 people voted »
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21
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes 3 people voted »
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22
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick 3 people voted »
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23
Rousseau and Revolution
Rousseau and Revolution
by Will Durant, Ariel Durant 3 people voted »
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The Denial Of Death
The Denial Of Death
by Ernest Becker 2 people voted »
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25
Journey to the Ants
Journey to the Ants
by Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson 2 people voted »
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27
The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder 2 people voted »
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29
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonv...
by Erik H. Erikson 2 people voted »
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32
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
by David Brion Davis 2 people voted »
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33
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain...
by Caroline Elkins 2 people voted »
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34
Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climac...
by Diane McWhorter 2 people voted »
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35
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix 2 people voted »
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36
Annals of the Former World
Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee 2 people voted »
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37
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
by Paul Starr 2 people voted »
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38
Children of Crisis
Children of Crisis
by Robert Coles 2 people voted »
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39
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, th...
by Norman Mailer 1 person voted »
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40
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After ...
by Tina Rosenberg 1 person voted »
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41
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World Wa...
by John W. Dower 1 person voted »
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Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Trium ph of Philip Morris
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarett...
by Richard Kluger 1 person voted »
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43
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Jap...
by John Toland 1 person voted »
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44
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in ...
by Jonathan Weiner 1 person voted »
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46
And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Le...
by Dale Maharidge (Goodreads author), Michael Williamson 1 person voted »
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Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
by Joseph Lelyveld 1 person voted »
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48
Why Survive?: Being Old in America
Why Survive?: Being Old in America
by Robert N. Butler 1 person voted »
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So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped By  Surroundings and Events
So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped By Surro...
by René Dubos 1 person voted »
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Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter
Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record...
by Edwin Way Teale 1 person voted »
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O Strange New World
O Strange New World
by Howard Mumford Jones 1 person voted »
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message 1: by Themis-Athena (new)

1746024 What is "Bel Canto" doing on this list?


message 2: by Lobstergirl (new)

1910836 Themis-Athena wrote: "What is "Bel Canto" doing on this list?"

Got rid of it.


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1746024 Thanks!!


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