Lists of Bests: Pulitzer Prize Winners for General Non-Fiction http://www.listsofbests.com/list/85 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._ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:20:57 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 The Making of the President 1960 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1564152 <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 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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345476093.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara W. Tuchman</div> Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/40302 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/40302"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394703170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056440085_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Hofstadter</div> O Strange New World: American Culture, The Formative Years http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1105960 <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: An Adventurous 20,000 Mile Journey Through The North American Winter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2702752 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edwin Way Teale</div> The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Oxford Paperback Reference) 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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195056396.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056423553_.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 (Story of Civilization, 10) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66443 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66443"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1567310214.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Will Durant</div> The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452272793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events (Scribner Library of Contemporary Cla) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66444 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Jules Dubos</div> Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66446 <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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812968581.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Toland</div> Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2742551 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2742551"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1842122819.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316151025.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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/6913 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6913"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316159190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134514748_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances FitzGerald</div> The Denial of Death http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966646 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0844669326.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000CSGZEK.01-A23Z7Z6P2MHZJR._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Dillard</div> Why Survive? Being Old in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2767589 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316923354.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345346297.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> ON HUMAN NATURE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66450 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14256 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14256"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465026567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</div> Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Vintage) 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://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394744780.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316491977.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394713788.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Sheehan</div> The Social Transformation of American Medicine 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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465079350.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565843436.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085762609_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Studs Terkel</div> Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2767591 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Lelyveld</div> Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11207 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11207"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394746163.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056440110_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. Anthony Lukas</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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142002291.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684813785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Rhodes</div> A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18670 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18670"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679724141.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464882_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Sheehan</div> And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1583226575.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674040759.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464299_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bert Hölldobler</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 (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2178712 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2178712"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743299639.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679751254.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067973337X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679744991.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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 Trium ph 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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375700366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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/10899 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10899"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393317552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared M. 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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374518734.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John McPhee</div> Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10932 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10932"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393320278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060931302.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743217721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124911038_.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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060541644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414366_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samantha Power</div> GULAG: A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET CAMPS. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2082307 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143034669.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.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/2124728 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124728"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HOMU3Y.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caroline Elkins</div> The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2066250 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2066250"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037541486X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Wright</div> The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (Nazi Germany and the Jews) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2977099 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2977099"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11VSNBjoozL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Friedlander</div>