Pulitzer Prize - Nonfiction
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for distinguished nonfiction by an American author, typically dealing with American life.
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The emperor of all maladies : a biography of cancer2010
Summary: A magnificently written "biography" of cancer--from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it.- place hold (0)
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city2016
Summary: Sociologist Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20... more »- place hold (0)
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The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/112006
Summary: A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on... more »- place hold (0)
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The making of the atomic bomb2012
Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal... more »- place hold (0)
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Black flags : the rise of ISIS2015
Summary: "When he succeeded his father in 1999, King Abdullah of Jordan released a batch of political prisoners in the hopes of smoothing his transition to power. Little did he know that among those released... more »- place hold (0)
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Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America2012
Summary: In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming with cheap Jim Crow labor. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, vicious Sheriff McCall was fast on the trail of four young blacks... more »- place hold (0)
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The prize : the epic quest for oil, money, & power2009
Summary: Now with a new epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, "The Prize" recounts the panoramic history of the world's most important resource: oil. Daniel Yergin's timeless book... more »- place hold (0)
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Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon2008
Summary: In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history-an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil... more »- place hold (0)
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The Blood telegram : Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide2013
Summary: A full-length account of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Pakistan's brutal 1970s military dictatorship argues that they encouraged China's military presence in India,... more »- place hold (0)
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Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies2005
Summary: Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This... more »- place hold (0)
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The guns of August1994
Summary: In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the... more »- place hold (0)
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The sixth extinction : an unnatural history2014
Summary: Over the last half billion years , there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth... more »- place hold (0)
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The swerve : how the world became modern2011
Summary: In this book the author transports readers 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... more »- place hold (0)
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Gulag : a history2003
Summary: The Gulag-the vast array of Soviet concentration camps-was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust. The Gulag... more »- place hold (0)
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Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America1992
Summary: An account of Lincoln's revolutionary speech describes how, in the space of a mere 272 words, the President brought to bear the rhetoric of the Greek Revival, the categories of transcendentalism,... more »- place hold (0)
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Toms River : a story of science and salvation2015
Summary: Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals. One of New Jersey's... more »- place hold (0)
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The years of extermination : Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-19452008
Summary: The Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedlander's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of this most systematic and... more »- place hold (0)
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Is there no place on earth for me?1983
Summary: " A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia."-- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic"Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent young girl, became... more »- place hold (0)
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Carry me home : Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution2001
Summary: A major work of history, investigative journalism that breaks new ground, and personal memoir, "Carry Me Home" is a dramatic account of the civil rights era's climactic battle in... more »- place hold (0)
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The insurgents : David Petraeus and the plot to change the American way of war2013
Summary: The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, against fierce resistance from within their own ranks.- place hold (0)
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