1997 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

Richard Kluger

No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes — mankind’s most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product — with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexitie…

Fame and Folly

Cynthia Ozick

The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond

Samuel G. Freedman