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Pulitzer Prize Winners for General Non-Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for books published the previous year. The General Non-Fiction category was started in 1962.

Note: There was a tie in 1969, 1973 and 1986.

(found at: http://www.pulitzer.org/)

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1.
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 The Making of the President 1960
by Theodore H. White
  
2. The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman
  
3. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Vintage)
by Richard Hofstadter
  
4.
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 O Strange New World: American Culture, The Formative Years
by Howard Mumford Jones
  
5.
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 Wandering Through Winter: An Adventurous 20,000 Mile Journey Through The North American Winter
by Edwin Way Teale
  
6. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by David Brion Davis
  
7. Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715, to 1789 (Story of Civilization, 10)
by Will Durant
  
8. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
by Norman Mailer
  
9.
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 So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events (Scribner Library of Contemporary Cla)
by Rene Jules Dubos
  
10.
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 Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
by Erik H Erikson
  
11. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War)
by John Toland
  
12. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
by Barbara W. Tuchman
  
13. Children of Crisis
by Robert Coles
  
14. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by Frances FitzGerald
  
15. The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
  
16. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
  
17.
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 Why Survive? Being Old in America
by Robert N. Butler
  
18. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
by William W. Warner
  
19. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by Carl Sagan
  
20.
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 ON HUMAN NATURE
by Edward O. Wilson
  
21. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  
22. Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Vintage)
by Carl E. Schorske
  
23. The Soul Of A New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
  
24. Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
by Susan Sheehan
  
25. The Social Transformation of American Medicine
by Paul Starr
  
26. The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
by Studs Terkel
  
27.
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 Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
by Joseph Lelyveld
  
28. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas
  
29. Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
by David K. Shipler
  
30. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
  
31. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by Neil Sheehan
  
32. And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by Dale Maharidge
  
33. The Ants
by Bert Hölldobler
  
34. The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin
  
35. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library)
by Garry Wills
  
36. Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
  
37. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Jonathan Weiner
  
38. The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
by Tina Rosenberg
  
39. Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Trium ph of Philip Morris
by Richard Kluger
  
40. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared M. Diamond
  
41. Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee
  
42. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower
  
43. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix
  
44. Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by Diane McWhorter
  
45. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
  
46.
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 GULAG: A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET CAMPS.
by Anne. Applebaum
  
47. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by Steve Coll
  
48. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
by Caroline Elkins
  
49. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
  
50. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (Nazi Germany and the Jews)
by Saul Friedlander
  
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