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Pulitzer Prizes
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The prize is given for "a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category."
For more information, including previous winners and finalists, visit the official Pulitzer Prizes website.
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2012 Greenblatt, Stephen The Swerve : How the World Became Modern A humanities professor describes the impact had by the translation of the last remaining manuscript of "On the Nature of Things" by Roman philosopher Lucretius, which fueled the Renaissance and inspired artists, great thinkers, and scientists. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2011 Mukherjee, Siddhartha The Emperor of All Maladies : a Biography of Cancer A magnificently written "biography" of cancer--from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2010 Hoffman, David E. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy A history of the end of the arms race describes the Soviet Union's development of an automatic retaliatory attack system, the United States's efforts to create space-based missile defenses, and the struggle to prevent nuclear weapons from being acquired by terrorists. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book 909.825 H 2009 | |
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2009 Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II Bringing to light a shameful chapter in American history, a shocking study reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off the outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to small-town businesses, provincial farmers, and even large corporations. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2008 Friedlander, Saul The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945 Examines the anti-Semitism that led to Nazi Germany's attempts to exterminate Europe's Jewish population, focusing on the people and events from the Nazi accession to power in 1933 to the onset of World War II. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book 940.5318 F | |
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2007 Wright, Lawrence The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Explores both the American and Arab sides of the September 11th terrorist attacks in an account of the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that led to the attacks. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book 973.931 W | |
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2006 Elkins, Caroline Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Reveals how, after the Kenyans fought alongside Allied forces in World War II, the British colonial government detained more than one million Kenyan minorities in prisons and work camps where many met their deaths as a result of a British attempt to destroy official records of the attempt to stop the Mau Mau uprising. 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book 967.62 E | |
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2005 Coll, Steve Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Provides an overview of CIA and other covert operations in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, detailing efforts to capture or kill bin Laden and the failure to stop the events of September 11th. 2004 958.1045 C | |
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2004 Applebaum, Anne Gulag: A History Chronicles the history of the Soviet concentration camp system from its start after the Russian Revolution to its collapse, discussing its creation and the way of life for those who lived there. 2003 947.084 A | |
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2003 Power, Samantha "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide Discusses America's political stance during the holocausts of the past fifty years, presenting moral arguments for why the United States should change its non-engagement policies to become involved in conflicts involving genocide. 2002 364.151 P | |
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