Winners
2009 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)
A precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity.
2008 The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (HarperCollins)
2007 The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 byLawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
2006 Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)
2005 Ghost Wars by Steve Coll(The Penguin Press)
2004 Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)
2003 "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocideby Samantha Power (Basic Books)
2002 Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter(Simon & Schuster)
2001 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix(HarperCollins)
2000 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II byJohn W. Dower (W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press)
1999 Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (Farrar)
1998 Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies byJared Diamond (W.W. Norton)
1997 Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris byRichard Kluger (Alfred A. Knopf)
1996 The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg(Random House)
1995 The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time byJonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf)
1994 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire byDavid Remnick (Random House)
1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America byGarry Wills (Simon & Schuster)
1992 The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin (Simon & Schuster)
1991 The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
1990 And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (Pantheon)
1989 A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnamby Neil Sheehan (Random House)
1988 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Simon and Schuster)
1987 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land byDavid K. Shipler (Times Books)
1986 Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas (Alfred A. Knopf)
1986 Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld (Times Books)
1985 The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two byStuds Terkel (Pantheon)
1984 The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr (Basic Books)
1983 Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan(Houghton Mifflin)
1982 The Soul of A New Machineby Tracy Kidder (Atlanti'Little)
1981 Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske (Knopf)
1980 Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Basic Books)
1979 On Human Nature byEdward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ. Press)
1978 The Dragons of Eden byCarl Sagan (Random House)
1977 Beautiful Swimmers byWilliam W. Warner (Atlantic Little Brown)
1976 Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert N. Butler(Harper)
1975 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek byAnnie Dillard (Harper's Magazine Press)
1974 The Denial of Death by the late Ernest Becker (Free Press/Macmillan)
1973 Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald(Little)
1973 Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles (Little)
1972 Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 byBarbara W. Tuchman(Macmillan)
1971 The Rising Sun by John Toland (Random)
1970 Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson (Norton)
1969 The Armies Of The Nightby Norman Mailer (World)
1969 So Human An Animal byRene Jules Dubos (Scribner)
1968 Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization byWill and Ariel Durant (Simon & Schuster)
1967 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (Cornell Univ. Press)
1966 Wandering Through Winterby Edwin Way Teale (Dodd)
1965 O Strange New World byHoward Mumford Jones (Viking)
1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (Random)
1963 The Guns of August byBarbara W. Tuchman(Macmillan)
1962 The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White (Atheneum)
Finalists
2009 Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman (Bantam Books)
An authoritative, deeply researched book that achieves an extraordinary balance in weighing two mighty protagonists against each other.
2009 The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock(Free Press)
A heavily documented exploration of the overlooked suffering of noncombatants in the victory over Nazi Germany, written with the dash of a novelist and the authority of a scholar.
2008 The Cigarette Century byAllan Brandt (Basic Books)
2008 The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2007 Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
2007 Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (The Penguin Press)
2006 Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt (The Penguin Press)
2006 The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2005 Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (Alfred A. Knopf)
2005 The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea (Little)
2004 Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler (The University of Chicago Press)
2004 The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Militaryby Dana Priest (W.W. Norton)
2003 The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker (Viking)
2003 The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit by Ellen Meloy (Pantheon Books)
2002 War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam (Scribner)
2002 The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon(Scribner)
2001 Newjack: Guarding Sing Singby Ted Conover (Random House)
2001 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers(Simon & Schuster)
2000 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest forthe Ultimate Theory byBrian Greene (W.W. Norton)
2000 Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds byScott Weidensaul (North Point Press/Farrar)
1999 Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie(Metropolitan Books)
1999 The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Doby Judith Rich Harris (Free Press)
1998 Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Villard)
1998 How the Mind Works bySteven Pinker (W.W. Norton)
1997 The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt toReagan and Beyond bySamuel G. Freedman (Simon & Schuster)
1997 Fame and Folly by Cynthia Ozick (Alfred A. Knopf)
1996 Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life byDaniel C. Dennett (Simon & Schuster)
1996 Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler(Pantheon)
1995 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story byJohn Berendt (Random House)
1995 How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland (Alfred A. Knopf)
1994 The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age by John Lukacs (Ticknor & Fields)
1994 The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay (W.W. Norton)
1993 A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin(Doubleday)
1993 Where the Buffalo Roam byAnne Matthews (Grove Weidenfeld)
1993 Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father byRichard Rodriguez (Viking)
1992 Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus (David R. Godine)
1992 Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall (W.W. Norton & Company)
1991 River of Traps: A Village Lifeby William duBuys and Alex Harris(University of New Mexico)
1991 Looking for a Ship by John McPhee (Farrar Straus Giroux)
1990 A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 by David Fromkin (Henry Holt & Company)
1990 Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History byStephen Jay Gould (W.W. Norton & Company)
1989 Danger and Survival byMcGeorge Bundy (Random House)
1989 Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris (William Morrow and Company)
1989 The Last Farmer by Howard Kohn (Summit Books)
1988 Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society by Daniel Callahan (Simon and Schuster)
1988 Chaos: Making a New Scienceby James Gleick (Viking)
1987 Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir by Cyra McFadden (Alfred A. Knopf)
1987 Rising from the Plains by John McPhee (Farrar)
1986 Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah
1985 Dawn to the West by Donald Keene (Holt)
1985 Endless Enemies by Jonathan Kwitny (Congdon & Weed)
1984 Conversations With the Enemy by Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer (Putnam)
1984 Wild Justice by Susan Jacoby(Harper & Row)
1983 Terrorists and Novelists byDiane Johnson (Knopf)
1983 The Fate of the Earth byJonathan Schell (Knopf)
1982 Basin and Range by John McPhee (Farrar)
1982 Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana Trilling (Harcourt Brace)
1981 Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey by Marshall Frady (New American Library)
1981 China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (Knopf)
1981 Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester (Little)
1980 The Madwoman in the Atticby Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (Yale)
1980 The Medusa and the Snail byLewis Thomas (Viking)
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