Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Public

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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The prize was first awarded in 1962.

  1. Phil in SF says:

    1962 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  2. The Guns of August by 

    5 stars

    The shock of the opening clash in August,1914, and the thirty days of battle which followed determined the future course …

    Phil in SF says:

    1963 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  3. Anti-Intellectualism in American life by 

    No rating

    The American intellectual has usually been regarded with considerable suspiclon or resentment by his countrymen, and in our own times …

    Phil in SF says:

    1964 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  4. Phil in SF says:

    1965 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  5. Wandering Through Winter by  (The American Seasons, #4)

    No rating

    With the publication of Wandering Through Winter, Edwin Way Teale completes the ambitious project on which he has been …

    Phil in SF says:

    1966 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  6. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by 

    No rating

    Observing that, at the start of the American Revolution, Negro slavery was a legal institution in the thirteen colonies and …

    Phil in SF says:

    1967 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  7. Rousseau and Revolution by , (The Story of Civilization, #10)

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    The publication of Rousseau and Revolution is more than a cause for pleasure for the hundreds of thousands of readers …

    Phil in SF says:

    1968 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  8. So Human an Animal by 

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    "Each human being," says René Dubos, "is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable." Yet today each of us faces the critical danger of …

    Phil in SF says:

    1969 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  9. The Armies of the Night by 

    No rating

    In 1948 The Naked and the Dead was published. Since then Norman Mailer has entertained enraged, and diverted us with …

    Phil in SF says:

    1969 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  10. Gandhi's Truth by 

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    Many of the methods of civil disobedience so widely and so sporadically used today have their origin in Mahatma Gandhi's …

    Phil in SF says:

    1970 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  11. The Rising Sun by 

    No rating

    This monumental narrative history, told primarily from the Japanese viewpoint, traces the dramatic fortunes of modern Japan from the invasion …

    Phil in SF says:

    1971 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  12. Stilwell and the American Experience in China by 

    No rating

    Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 is a work of history written by Barbara W. Tuchman and published …

    Phil in SF says:

    1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  13. Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers by  (Children of Crisis, #2)

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    This study of the rural poor in the American South is the second volume of Dr. Robert Coles' award-winning Children …

    Phil in SF says:

    1973 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  14. The South Goes North by  (Children of Crisis, #3)

    No rating

    Phil in SF says:

    1973 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

  15. Fire in the Lake by 

    No rating

    Much has been written about American involvement in Vietnam. But Fire in the Lake Tells of the Vietnamese themselves and …

    Phil in SF says:

    1973 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction

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