| 1917 |
Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott |
Julia Ward Howe
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| 1918 |
William Cabell Bruce |
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
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| 1919 |
Henry Adams |
The Education of Henry Adams
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| 1920 |
Albert J. Beveridge |
The Life of John Marshall (4 vols.)
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| 1921 |
Edward Bok |
The Americanization of Edward Bok
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| 1922 |
Hamlin Garland |
A Daughter of the Middle Border
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| 1923 |
Burton J. Hendrick |
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
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| 1924 |
Michael Idvorsky Pupin |
From Immigrant to Inventor
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| 1925 |
M. A. Dewolfe Howe |
Barrett Wendell and His Letters
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| 1926 |
Harvey Cushing |
The Life of Sir William Osler (2 vols.)
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| 1927 |
Emory Holloway |
Whitman
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| 1928 |
Charles Edward Russell |
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
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| 1929 |
Burton J. Hendrick |
The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
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| 1930 |
Marquis James |
The Raven
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| 1931 |
Henry James |
Charles W. Eliot
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| 1932 |
Henry F. Pringle |
Theodore Roosevelt
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| 1933 |
Allan Nevins |
Grover Cleveland
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| 1934 |
Tyler Dennett |
John Hay
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| 1935 |
Douglas S. Freeman |
R. E. Lee
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| 1936 |
Ralph Barton Perry |
The Thought and Character of William James
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| 1937 |
Allan Nevins |
Hamilton Fish
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| 1938 |
Marquis James |
Andrew Jackson (2 vols.)
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| 1938 |
Odell Shepard |
Pedlar's Progress
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| 1939 |
Carl Van Doren |
Benjamin Franklin
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| 1940 |
Ray Stannard Baker |
Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII
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| 1941 |
Ola Elizabeth Winslow |
Jonathan Edward
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| 1942 |
Forrest Wilson |
Crusader in Crinoline
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| 1943 |
Samuel Eliot Morison |
Admiral of the Ocean Sea
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| 1944 |
Carleton Mabee |
The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
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| 1945 |
Russell Blaine Nye |
George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
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| 1946 |
Linnie Marsh Wolfe |
Son of the Wilderness
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| 1947 |
William Allen White |
The Autobiography of William Allen White
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| 1948 |
Margaret Clapp |
Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
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| 1949 |
Robert E. Sherwood |
Roosevelt and Hopkins
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| 1950 |
Samuel Flagg Bemis |
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
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| 1951 |
Margaret Louise Coit |
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
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| 1952 |
Merlo J. Pusey |
Charles Evans Hughes
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| 1953 |
David J. Mays |
Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803
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| 1954 |
Charles Lindbergh |
The Spirit of St. Louis
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| 1955 |
William S. White |
The Taft Story
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| 1956 |
Talbot Faulkner Hamlin |
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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| 1957 |
John F. Kennedy |
Profiles in Courage
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| 1958 |
Douglas Southall Freeman, John Alexander Carroll, Mary Wells Ashworth |
George Washington
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| 1959 |
Arthur Walworth |
Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet
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| 1960 |
Samuel Eliot Morison |
John Paul Jones
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| 1961 |
David Donald |
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
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| 1962 |
(no award)
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| 1963 |
Leon Edel |
Henry James
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| 1964 |
Walter Jackson Bate |
John Keats
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| 1965 |
Ernest Samuels |
Henry Adams (3 vols.)
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| 1966 |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
A Thousand Days
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| 1967 |
Justin Kaplan |
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
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| 1968 |
George F. Kennan |
Memoirs
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| 1969 |
Benjamin Lawrence Reid |
The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends
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| 1970 |
Thomas Harry Williams |
Huey Long
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| 1971 |
Lawrence Thompson |
Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938
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| 1972 |
Joseph P. Lash |
Eleanor and Franklin
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| 1973 |
W. A. Swanberg |
Luce and His Empire
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| 1974 |
Louis Sheaffer |
O'Neill, Son and Artist
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| 1975 |
Robert Caro |
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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| 1976 |
R. W. B. Lewis |
Edith Wharton: A Biography
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| 1977 |
John Mack |
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence
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| 1978 |
Walter Jackson Bate |
Samuel Johnson
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| 1979 |
Leonard Baker |
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews
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| 1980 |
Edmund Morris |
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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| 1981 |
Robert K. Massie |
Peter the Great: His Life and World
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| 1982 |
William S. McFeely |
Grant: A Biography
|
| 1983 |
Russell Baker |
Growing Up
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| 1984 |
Louis R. Harlan |
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
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| 1985 |
Kenneth Silverman |
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
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| 1986 |
Elizabeth Frank |
Louise Bogan: A Portrait
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| 1987 |
David J. Garrow |
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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| 1988 |
David Herbert Donald |
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
|
| 1989 |
Richard Ellmann |
Oscar Wilde
|
| 1990 |
Sebastian de Grazia |
Machiavelli in Hell
|
| 1991 |
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith |
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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| 1992 |
Lewis B. Puller |
Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.
|
| 1993 |
David McCullough |
Truman
|
| 1994 |
David Levering Lewis |
W. E. B. Dubois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
|
| 1995 |
Joan D. Hedrick |
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
|
| 1996 |
Jack Miles |
God: A Biography
|
| 1997 |
Frank McCourt |
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
|
| 1998 |
Katharine Graham |
Personal History
|
| 1999 |
A. Scott Berg |
Lindbergh
|
| 2000 |
Stacy Schiff |
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
|
| 2001 |
David Levering Lewis |
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919-1963
|
| 2002 |
David McCullough |
John Adams
|
| 2003 |
Robert Caro |
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
|
| 2004 |
William Taubman |
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
|
| 2005 |
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan |
De Kooning: An American Master
|
| 2006 |
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin |
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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| 2007 |
Debby Applegate |
The Most Famous Man in America
|
| 2008 |
John Matteson |
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
|
| 2009 |
Jon Meacham |
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
|
| 2010 |
T. J. Stiles |
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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| 2011 |
Ron Chernow |
Washington: A Life
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| 2012 |
John Lewis Gaddis |
George F. Kennan: An American Life |
