Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

1983 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerIs There No Place on Earth for Me?Susan Sheehan...Amazon1983 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistTerrorists and NovelistsDiane JohnsonAmazonThe Fate of the EarthJonathan SchellAmazon

1984 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Social Transformation of American MedicinePaul StarrWinner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "Th...Amazon1984 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistConversations With the EnemyWinston Groom and Duncan SpencerAmazonWild JusticeSusan JacobyAmazon

1985 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Good War: An Oral History of World War TwoStuds TerkelWinner of the Pulitzer Prize: “The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II” (The Boston Globe). “The Good War” is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as a...Amazon1985 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistDawn to the WestDonald KeeneAmazonEndless EnemiesJonathan KwitnyAmazon

1986 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerCommon Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesJ. Anthony LukasWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of...AmazonMove Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and WhiteJoseph Lelyveld...Amazon1986 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistHabits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American LifeRobert Neelly BellahAmazon

1987 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerArab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised LandDavid K. ShiplerThe expanded and updated edition of David Shipler's Pulitzer Prize-winning book that examines the relationship, past and present, between Arabs and Jews In this monumental work, extensively researched and more relevant than ever, David Shipler delves into ...Amazon1987 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistRain or Shine: A Family MemoirCyra McFaddenAmazonRising from the PlainsJohn McPheeAmazon

1988 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Making of the Atomic BombRichard RhodeTwenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan...Amazon1988 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistChaos: Making a New ScienceJames GleickAmazonSetting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging SocietyDaniel CallahanAmazon

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

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