| 1962 |
Theodore H. White |
The Making of the President, 1960
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| 1963 |
Barbara Tuchman |
The Guns of August
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| 1964 |
Richard Hofstadter |
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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| 1965 |
Howard Mumford Jones |
O Strange New World
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| 1966 |
Edwin Way Teale |
Wandering Through Winter
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| 1967 |
David Brion Davis |
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
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| 1968 |
Will and Ariel Durant |
Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization)
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| 1969 |
Norman Mailer |
The Armies of the Night
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| 1969 |
Rene Jules Dubos |
So Human an Animal
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| 1970 |
Erik H. Erikson |
Gandhi's Truth
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| 1971 |
John Toland |
The Rising Sun
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| 1972 |
Barbara Tuchman |
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
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| 1973 |
Robert Coles |
Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III
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| 1973 |
Frances Fitzgerald |
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
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| 1974 |
Ernest Becker |
The Denial of Death
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| 1975 |
Annie Dillard |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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| 1976 |
Robert N. Butler |
Why Survive? Being Old in America
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| 1977 |
William W. Warner |
Beautiful Swimmers
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| 1978 |
Carl Sagan |
The Dragons of Eden
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| 1979 |
Edward O. Wilson |
On Human Nature
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| 1980 |
Douglas Hofstadter |
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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| 1981 |
Carl E. Schorske |
Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
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| 1982 |
Tracy Kidder |
The Soul of a New Machine
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| 1983 |
Susan Sheehan |
Is There No Place on Earth For Me?
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| 1984 |
Paul Starr |
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
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| 1985 |
Studs Terkel |
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
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| 1986 |
Joseph Lelyveld |
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
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| 1986 |
J. Anthony Lukas |
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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| 1987 |
David K. Shipler |
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
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| 1988 |
Richard Rhodes |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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| 1989 |
Neil Sheehan |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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| 1990 |
Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson |
And Their Children After Them
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| 1991 |
Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson |
The Ants
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| 1992 |
Daniel Yergin |
The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power
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| 1993 |
Garry Wills |
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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| 1994 |
David Remnick |
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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| 1995 |
Jonathan Weiner |
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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| 1996 |
Tina Rosenberg |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
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| 1997 |
Richard Kluger |
Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
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| 1998 |
Jared Diamond |
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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| 1999 |
John McPhee |
Annals of the Former World
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| 2000 |
John W. Dower |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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| 2001 |
Herbert P. Bix |
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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| 2002 |
Diane McWhorter |
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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| 2003 |
Samantha Power |
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
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| 2004 |
Anne Applebaum |
Gulag: A History
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| 2005 |
Steve Coll |
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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| 2006 |
Caroline Elkins |
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
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| 2007 |
Lawrence Wright |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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| 2008 |
Saul Friedländer |
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
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| 2009 |
Douglas A. Blackmon |
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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| 2010 |
David E. Hoffman |
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
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| 2011 |
Siddhartha Mukherjee |
Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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| 2012 |
Stephen Greenblatt |
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern |
