General Nonfiction

The Swerve - Pulitzer

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Award Year: 
2012
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Authors(s): 
Stephen Greenblatt
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion.

The Emperor of All Maladies

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Award Year: 
2011
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Authors(s): 
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.

The Dead Hand

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Award Year: 
2010
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Authors(s): 
David E. Hoffman
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
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A well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Pulitzer

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Award Year: 
1988
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Authors(s): 
Richard Rhodes
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The Making of the Atom Bomb
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A gripping, authoritative account of the men, women, science, drama and intrigue behind the single most important event of the century: the discovery of nuclear energy and construction of the atomic bomb.

A Bright Shining Lie - Pulitzer

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Award Year: 
1989
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A Bright Shining Lie
Authors(s): 
Neil Sheehan
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnam
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Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam.

And Their Children After Them

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Award Year: 
1990
Authors(s): 
Dale Maharidge
Author 2: 
Michael Williamson
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And Their Children After Them

The Ants

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Award Year: 
1991
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The Ants
Authors(s): 
Bert Holldobler
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Edward O. Wilson
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The Ants
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This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Holldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants.

The Prize

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Award Year: 
1992
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Authors(s): 
Daniel Yergin
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power
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Tells the history of oil-and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil.

Lincoln at Gettysburg

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Award Year: 
1993
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Authors(s): 
Garry Wills
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Lincoln at Gettysburg
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By examining both the Gettysburg Address and Abraham Lincoln in their historical monument and cultural frame, Wills reveals much about a President so mythologized but often misunderstood.

Lenin's Tomb

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Award Year: 
1994
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Authors(s): 
David Remnick
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Lenin's Tomb
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.
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