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        Pulitzer Prize Winning Books (General Non-Fiction)
    (As of: 01-Jun-2004)

    19th Century American journalist Joseph Pulitzer established the Pulitzer Prize as part of his will, as an incentive for excellence in the fields of journalism and letters (i.e. books.) The first Pulitzers were awarded in 1917. Listed here are the Pulitzer Prize winners in Letters in the category of General Non-Fiction since 1980. The Pulitzer Prize in Letters: General Non-Fiction was first awarded in 1962.

    Source: Pulitzer Prize Board

       
      Year   Book
      2004
    Gulag: A History
    by Anne Applebaum


     
      2003
    A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
    by Samantha Power


     
      2002
    Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
    by Diane McWhorter


     
      2001
    Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
    by Herbert P. Bix


     
      2000
    Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
    by John W. Dower


     
      1999 Annals of the Former World
    by John McPhee


     
      1998 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    by Jared Diamond


     
      1997
    Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
    by Richard Kluger


     
      1996
    The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
    by Tina Rosenberg


     
      1995
    The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
    by Jonathan Weiner


     
      1994
    Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
    by David Remnick


     
      1993
    Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
    by Garry Wills


     
      1992
    The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
    by Daniel Yergin


     
      1991
    The Ants
    by Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson


     
      1990
    And Their Children After Them
    by Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson


     
      1989
    A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
    by Neil Sheehan


     
      1988
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes


     
      1987
    Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
    by David K. Shipler


     
      1986
    Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
    by J. Anthony Lukas


     
      1986
    Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
    by Joseph Lelyveld


     
      1985
    The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
    by Studs Terkel


     
      1984
    Social Transformation of American Medicine
    by Paul Starr


     
      1983
    Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
    by Susan Sheehan


     
      1982
    The Soul of a New Machine
    by Tracy Kidder


     
      1981
    Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
    by Carl E. Schorske


     
      1980
    Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    by Douglas R. Hofstadter


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