| 1950 |
Ralph L. Rusk |
Ralph Waldo Emerson (article)
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| 1951 |
Newton Arvin |
Herman Melville (article)
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| 1952 |
Rachel Carson |
The Sea Around Us
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| 1953 |
Bernard A. De Voto |
The Course of Empire
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| 1954 |
Bruce Catton |
A Stillness at Appomattox
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| 1955 |
Joseph Wood Krutch |
The Measure of Man
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| 1956 |
Herbert Kubly |
An American in Italy
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| 1957 |
George F. Kennan |
Russia Leaves the War
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| 1958 |
Catherine Drinker Bowen |
The Lion and the Throne (article)
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| 1959 |
J. Christopher Herold |
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
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| 1960 |
Richard Ellmann |
James Joyce (article)
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| 1961 |
William L. Shirer |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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| 1962 |
Lewis Mumford |
The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects
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| 1963 |
Leon Edel |
Henry James, Vol. II and III
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| 1984 |
Robert V. Remini |
Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (article)
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| 1985 |
J. Anthony Lukas |
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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| 1986 |
Barry Lopez |
Arctic Dreams
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| 1987 |
Richard Rhodes |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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| 1988 |
Neil Sheehan |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (article)
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| 1989 |
Thomas Friedman |
From Beirut to Jerusalem
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| 1990 |
Ron Chernow |
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
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| 1991 |
Orlando Patterson |
Freedom
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| 1992 |
Paul Monette |
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
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| 1993 |
Gore Vidal |
United States: Essays 1952-1992
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| 1994 |
Sherwin B. Nuland |
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
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| 1995 |
Tina Rosenberg |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
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| 1996 |
James Carroll |
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
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| 1997 |
Joseph J. Ellis |
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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| 1998 |
Edward Ball |
Slaves in the Family
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| 1999 |
John W. Dower |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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| 2000 |
Nathaniel Philbrick |
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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| 2001 |
Andrew Solomon |
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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| 2002 |
Robert Caro |
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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| 2003 |
Carlos Eire |
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
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| 2004 |
Kevin Boyle |
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
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| 2005 |
Joan Didion |
The Year of Magical Thinking
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| 2006 |
Timothy Egan |
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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| 2007 |
Tim Weiner |
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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| 2008 |
Annette Gordon-Reed |
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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| 2009 |
T. J. Stiles |
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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| 2010 |
Patti Smith |
Just Kids
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| 2011 |
Stephen Greenblatt |
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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| 2012 |
Katherine Boo |
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity |
