Lists of Bests: Pulitzer Prize - Non-Fiction http://www.listsofbests.com/list/6354 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:04:56 GMT en-us 0 50 48 0 0 The Making of the President 1960 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/833134 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore H. White</div> The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968383 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968383"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FgcC7xc8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara W. Tuchman</div> Anti-intellectualism in American Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1169384 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Hofstadter</div> O strange new world: American culture, the formative years (A Viking Compass book) (A Viking Compass book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1271879 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Mumford Jones</div> Wandering Through Winter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/877544 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/877544"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Bffy0ZfQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwin Way Teale</div> The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Oxford Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66442 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66442"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51v-osbquPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Brion Davis</div> Rousseau and Revolution: A history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789 (The story of civilization / Will and Ariel Durant) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/258090 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Will Durant</div> So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped By Surroundings and Events http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371241 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371241"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RAZGVDSNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Dubos</div> The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mj4wsqbQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> Ghandi's Truth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367645 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik H. Erikson</div> The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25570 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25570"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TxdEmCz8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Toland</div> Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24140 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24140"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ghFJFIaQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara W. Tuchman</div> Children of Crisis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64982 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64982"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qZSfi342L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Coles</div> Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371252 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371252"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000F5FNPM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54609062_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances FitzGerald</div> The Denial of Death http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57769 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57769"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51faqROfs2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Becker</div> pilgrim at tinker creek http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/100408 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/100408"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PG8PP9KGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Dillard</div> Why Survive?: Being Old in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66448 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66448"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41c4lwMabEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert N. Butler</div> Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66449 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66449"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51g3G08rZuL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William W. Warner</div> The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7585 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7585"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512%2Bc7FW9ZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> On Human Nature: Revised Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388285 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/388285"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5173QYV8DQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968031 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968031"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/2144S7AF6GL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Hofstadter</div> Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11205 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11205"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NeqSrybyL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl E. Schorske</div> The Soul of A New Machine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6993 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6993"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zs8coc22L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tracy Kidder</div> Is There No Place on Earth for Me? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11169 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11169"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5161ufWqA%2BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Sheehan</div> The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66451 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66451"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ebwNE-PZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Starr</div> The Good War: An Oral History of World War II http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30445 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30445"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GzJwxjjEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Studs Terkel</div> Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11207 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11207"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IopCqxmSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. Anthony Lukas</div> Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66452 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66452"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518wOfh1DrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Lelyveld</div> Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3593 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3593"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wSpArKljL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David K. Shipler</div> The Making of the Atomic Bomb http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19275 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19275"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51r-Ak8%2B0sL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Rhodes</div> A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/645490 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/645490"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21T374dHriL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil, Photo Illustrated sheehan</div> And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/653642 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/653642"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5134NrYpD3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dale Maharidge</div> The Ants http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18335 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18335"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JHVGR815L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bert Holldobler</div> The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18131 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18131"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671799320.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Yergin</div> Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18151 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18151"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y7RN6FZ1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Garry Wills</div> Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18935 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18935"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511574DKFAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Remnick</div> The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18758 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18758"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410T0FYSE6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Weiner</div> The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66454 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66454"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51exduDxy9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tina Rosenberg</div> Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66455 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66455"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dN8YNrRHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Kluger</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516H1W1ASTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> Annals of the Former World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66456 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66456"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FEc4gkQML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John McPhee</div> Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Aftermath of World War II http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578412 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578412"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41nMrF8JjiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John W. Dower</div> Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52158 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52158"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NR4qrp4HL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herbert P. Bix</div> Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66457 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66457"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K69M3VWCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane McWhorter</div> A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/819 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/819"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519995KGS7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samantha Power</div> Gulag: A History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28922 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28922"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VH0XHJGJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Applebaum</div> Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45867 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45867"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CZ985V5DL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steve Coll</div> Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002957 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002957"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P3kj-10uL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caroline Elkins</div>