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Pulitzer Prize

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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1989 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1989 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil SheehanOutspoken, professional and fearless, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, full of confidence in America's might and right to prevail. He was soon appalled by the South Vietnamese troops' unwillingness to fight, by their random slaughter of civ...Amazon1989 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistComing of Age in the Milky WayTimothy FerrisAmazonThe Last FarmerHoward KohnAmazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1989 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1989 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerBattle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War EraJames M. McPhersonFilled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the...AmazonParting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963Taylor BranchIn volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is de...Amazon1989 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil Sheeh...
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1989 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1989 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerNew and Collected PoemsRichard WilburSpanning four decades of work and encompassing the poet's six previously published volumes of poetry, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata, this volume represents the lifetime work of the man invested as Poet Laureate of the United States, October 1987...Amazon1989 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistThe One DayDonald HallAmazonThe River of HeavenGarrett HongoAmazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1990 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1990 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerMachiavelli in HellSebastian de GraziaIn this intellectual biography, de Grazia presents a new vision of Niccolo Machiavelli that evokes the great Florentine thinker's presence. After giving an engrossing account of Machiavelli's childhood and period of personal crisis that followed his impris...Amazon1990 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistBeing Bernard BerensonMeryle SecrestAmazonHerman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851Hershel ParkerAmazonIn the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown CountryKim BarnesAmazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1990 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1990 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of LoveOscar HijuelosIn late 1940s New York City, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, two young Cuban musicians, are dubbed the "Mambo Kings" for their talent and rise to superstardom. Reissue. (Tie in to the Broadway musical production, produced by Daryl Roth, opening August 2005) (Hi...Amazon1990 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistBilly BathgateE. L. DoctorowAmazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1990 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1990 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerAnd Their Children After ThemDale Maharidge and Michael WilliamsonThe writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families captured in Agee and Evans's inimitable Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotto...Amazon1990 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922David FromkinAmazonWonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryStephen Jay GouldAmazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1990 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1990 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerIn Our Image: America's Empire in the PhilippinesStanley KarnowTraces the history of the Philippines, discusses the influence of Spain and the United States, and looks at the problems facing the Philippines today....Amazon1990 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistAmerican Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970Thomas P. HughesAmazonThe Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War IHugh HonourAmazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1990 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1990 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe World Doesn't EndCharles SimicIn this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity. Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets the reader see through them....Amazon1990 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistSelected and Last PoemsPaul ZweigAmazonTime's PowerAdrienne RichAmazon
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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1991 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1991 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerJackson Pollock: An American SagaSteven Naifeh and Gregory White SmithBased on interviews with more than 850 people, this biography profiles the troubled life of the enigmatic avant-garde artist whose controversial work changed the definition of modern art...Amazon
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