Nominations 2013 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Jill Lepore |
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
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Wendy Lower |
Hitler\u2019s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
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George Packer |
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
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Alan Taylor |
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
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Lawrence Wright |
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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Nominations 2012 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Katherine Boo |
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
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Anne Applebaum |
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
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Robert Caro |
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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Domingo Martinez |
The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir
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Anthony Shadid |
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
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Nominations 2011 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Stephen Greenblatt |
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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Deborah Baker |
The Convert
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Mary Gabriel |
Love and Capital
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Manning Marable |
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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Lauren Redniss |
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie
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Nominations 2010 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Barbara Demick |
Nothing to Envy
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John W. Dower |
Cultures of War
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Justin Spring |
Secret Historian
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Megan K. Stack |
Every Man in This Village Is a Liar
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Patti Smith |
Just Kids
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Nominations 2009 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
T.J. Stiles |
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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David M. Carroll |
Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
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Sean B. Carroll |
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
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Greg Grandin |
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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Adrienne Mayor |
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
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Nominations 2008 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Annette Gordon-Reed |
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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Drew Gilpin Faust |
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
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Jane Mayer |
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
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Jim Sheeler |
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
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Joan Wickersham |
The Suicide Index
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Nominations 2007 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Tim Weiner |
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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Edwidge Danticat |
Brother, I'm Dying
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Christopher Hitchens |
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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Woody Holton |
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
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Arnold Rampersad |
Ralph Ellison
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Nominations 2006 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Timothy Egan |
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Taylor Branch |
At Canaan's Edge
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
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Peter Hessler |
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
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Lawrence Wright |
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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Nominations 2005 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Joan Didion |
The Year of Magical Thinking
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Alan Burdick |
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
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Leo Damrosch |
Jean Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
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Jim Dwyer |
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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Kevin Flynn |
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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Adam Hochschild |
Bury the Chains
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Nominations 2004 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Kevin Boyle |
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
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David Hackett Fischer |
Washington's Crossing
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Jennifer Gonnerman |
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
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Stephen Greenblatt |
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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9/11 Commission |
9/11 Commission Report
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Nominations 2003 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Carlos Eire |
Waiting for Snow in Havana
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Anne Applebaum |
Gulag: A History
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George Howe Colt |
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
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John D'Emilio |
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
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Erik Larson |
The Devil in the White City
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Nominations 2002 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Robert Caro |
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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Devra Davis |
When Smoke Ran Like Water
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Atul Gawande |
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
The Last American Man
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Steve Olson |
Mapping Human History
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Nominations 2001 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Andrew Solomon |
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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Marie Arana |
American Chica
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Nina Bernstein |
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
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David James Duncan |
My Story as Told by Water
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Jan T. Gross |
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
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Nominations 2000 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Nathaniel Philbrick |
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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Jacques Barzun |
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present- 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
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Alice Kaplan |
The Collaborator
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David Levering Lewis |
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century
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Patrick Tierney |
Darkness in El Dorado
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Nominations 1999 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
John W. Dower |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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Natalie Angier |
Woman: an intimate geography
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Mark Bowden |
Black Hawk Down
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John Phillip Santos |
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
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Judith Thurman |
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
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Nominations 1998 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Edward Ball |
Slaves in the Family
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Harold Bloom |
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
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Yaffa Eliach |
There Once was A World
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Beth Kephart |
A Slant of Sun
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Henry Mayer |
All on Fire
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Nominations 1997 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Joseph J. Ellis |
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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David Kertzer |
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
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Jamaica Kincaid |
My Brother
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Thomas Lynch |
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
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Sam Tanenhaus |
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
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Nominations 1996 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
James P. Carroll |
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
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Melissa Fay Greene |
The Temple Bombing
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Paul Hendrickson |
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
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Cary Reich |
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958
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Anne Roiphe |
Fruitful
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Nominations 1995 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Daniel Dennett |
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
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Tina Rosenberg |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
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Dennis Covington |
Salvation on Sand Mountain
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Jonathan Harr |
A Civil Action
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Maryanne Vollers |
Ghosts of Mississippi
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Nominations 1994 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Sherwin B. Nuland |
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
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John Putnam Demos |
The Unredeemed Captive
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Jane Mayer |
Strange Justice
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John Edgar Wideman |
Fatheralong
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Tobias Wolff |
In Pharaoh's Army
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Nominations 1993 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Gore Vidal |
United States: Essays 1952-1992
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William Leach |
Land of Desire
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David Levering Lewis |
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
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Richard Slotkin |
Gunfighter Nation
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Peter Svenson |
Battlefield
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Nominations 1992 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Paul Monette |
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
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Edward L. Ayers |
The Promise of the New South
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James Gleick |
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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David McCullough |
Truman
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Garry Wills |
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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Nominations 1991 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Orlando Patterson |
Freedom
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E. J. Dionne |
Why Americans Hate Politics
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Melissa Fay Greene |
Praying For Sheetrock
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R. W. B. Lewis |
The Jameses: A Family Narrative
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Diane Middlebrook |
Anne Sexton: A Biography
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Nominations 1990 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Ron Chernow |
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
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Samuel G. Freedman |
Small Victories
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Roger Morris |
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
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Steven Naifeh |
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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Gregory White Smith |
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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T. H. Watkins |
Righteous Pilgrim
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Nominations 1989 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Thomas L. Friedman |
From Beirut to Jerusalem
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Taylor Branch |
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
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McGeorge Bundy |
Danger and Survival
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William Pfaff |
Barbarian Sentiments
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Marilynne Robinson |
Mother Country
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Nominations 1988 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Neil Sheehan |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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Eric Foner |
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
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Peter Gay |
The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism
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Brenda Maddox |
Nora
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Jack McLaughlin |
Jefferson and Monticello
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Nominations 1987 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Richard Rhodes |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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David Herbert Donald |
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
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James Gleick |
Chaos: Making a New Science
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Claudia Koonz |
Mothers in the Fatherland
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Robert A. M. Stern |
New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
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Gregory Gilmartin |
New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
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Thomas Mellins |
New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
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Nominations 1986 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Barry Lopez |
Arctic Dreams
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John W. Dower |
War Without Mercy
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Richard Kluger |
The Paper
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Michael Reynolds |
The young Hemingway
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Theodore Rosengarten |
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
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Nominations 1985 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
J. Anthony Lukas |
Common Ground
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Daniel Kevles |
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
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Walter A. McDougall |
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
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Nominations 1984 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Robert V. Remini |
Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845
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Howard M. Feinstein |
Becoming William James
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Richard Marius |
Thomas More
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Ernst Pawel |
The Nightmare of Reason
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Eudora Welty |
One Writer's Beginnings
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Nominations 1963 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Leon Edel |
Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London","Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years
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Rachel Carson |
Silent Spring
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Arthur Gelb |
O'Neill
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Barbara Gelb |
O'Neill
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Alfred Kazin |
Contemporaries, from the 19th Century to the Present
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Frederic Morton |
The Rothschilds
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Ernest Simmons |
Chekhov
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Page Smith |
John Adams
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
The Guns of August
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Edmund Wilson |
Patriotic Gore
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Nominations 1962 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Lewis Mumford |
The City in History
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Robert Ardrey |
African Genesis
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James Baldwin |
Nobody Knows My Name
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Stringfellow Barr |
The Will of Zeus
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Albert Bush-Brown |
The Architecture of America
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John E. Burchard |
The Architecture of America
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René Dubos |
The Dreams of Reason
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Jane Jacobs |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Oscar Lewis |
The Children of Sanchez
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Virginia Peterson |
A Matter of Life and Death
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Mark Schorer |
Sinclair Lewis
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Elizabeth Stevenson |
Lafcadio Hearn
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Theodore White |
The Making of the President, 1960
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Ola Elizabeth Winslow |
John Bunyan
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Nominations 1961 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
William L. Shirer |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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Isaac Asimov |
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
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Peter Blake |
The Master Builders. Le Corbusier, Mies VanDer Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright
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George Dangerfield |
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813
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David Herbert Donald |
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
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William O. Douglas |
My Wilderness
|
Loren Eiseley |
The Firmament of Time
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John Graves |
Goodbye to a River
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T.S. Mathews |
Name and Address
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Elizabeth Nowell |
Thomas Wolfe
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Harlan B. Phillips |
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces
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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
The Politics of Upheaval
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Nominations 1960 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Richard Ellmann |
James Joyce
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Jacques Barzun |
The House of Intellect
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Adolf Berle |
Power without Property
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Croswell Bowen |
The Curse of the Misbegotten
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Douglass Cater |
The Fourth Branch of Government
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Marchette Chute |
Two Gentle Men
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A. Hunter Dupree |
Asa Gray, American Botanist, Friend of Darwin
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Tyrone Guthrie |
A Life in the Theatre
|
Alan Harrington |
Life in the Crystal Palace
|
Moss Hart |
Act One: An Autobiography
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Howard Mumford Jones |
One Great Society
|
Nard Jones |
The Great Command
|
Matthew Josephson |
Edison a Biography
|
Joseph Wood Krutch |
Human Nature and the Human Condition
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Alfred Lansing |
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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Margaret Leech |
In the Days of McKinley
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Arthur Mann |
La Guardia, a fighter against his times
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Garrett Mattingly |
The Armada
|
John C. Miller |
Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox
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Samuel Eliot Morison |
John Paul Jones
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Carl Mydans |
More than Meets the Eye
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Allan Nevins |
The War for the Union, Vol. I
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Charlton Ogburn |
The Marauders
|
Vance Packard |
The Status Seekers
|
Berton Roueché |
The Delectable Mountains
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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
The Coming of the New Deal, Vol. II, The Age of Roosevelt
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George R. Stewart |
Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
The Harmless People
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James Thurber |
The Years with Ross
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Nominations 1959 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
J. Christopher Herold |
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
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Hannah Arendt |
The Human Condition
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Lester Atwell |
Private
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Daniel J. Boorstin |
The Americans: The Colonial Experience
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Anne Braden |
The Wall Between
|
Charles W. Ferguson |
Naked to Mine Enemies
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Shelby Foote |
Fort Sumter to Perryville
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John Kenneth Galbraith |
The Affluent Society
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Harry Golden |
Only in America
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George F. Kennan |
Russia, the Atom, and the West
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Louis Kronenberger |
Marlborough's Duchess
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Flora Lewis |
Case History of Hope
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Edgar Snow |
Journey to the Beginning
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Nominations 1958 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Catherine Drinker Bowen |
The Lion and the Throne
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Margaret Coit |
Mr. Baruch
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Will Durant |
The Reformation
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Louis Morton Hacker |
Alexander Hamilton in the American Tradition
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Gilbert Highet |
Poets in a Landscape
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M. A. Dewolfe Howe |
Justice Holmes: The Shaping Years, 1841-1870
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Henry Kissinger |
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
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Mary McCarthy |
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
|
Max F. Milliken |
A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy
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Walt Whitman Rostow |
A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy
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Vance Packard |
The hidden persuaders
|
John J. Pullen |
Twentieth Maine
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David Schoenbrun |
As France Goes
|
Gwen Terasaki |
Bridge to the Sun
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William Smith White |
Citadel, the story of the U.S. Senate
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Nominations 1957 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
George F. Kennan |
Russia Leaves the War
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Samuel Flagg Bemis |
John Quincy Adams and the Union
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James MacGregor Burns |
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox
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Bruce Catton |
This Hallowed Ground
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William Chambers |
Old Bullion Benton
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Stuart Chase |
Guides to Straight Thinking
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Arthur Compton |
The Atomic Quest
|
Frank Burt Freidel |
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph
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Eric F. Goldman |
The Crucial Decade, America 1945-55
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Kathryn Hulme |
The Nun's Story
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Paul Murray Kendall |
Richard the Third
|
John F. Kennedy |
Profiles in Courage
|
Samuel Lubell |
The Revolt of the Moderates
|
Perry Miller |
The Raven and the Whale
|
Lewis Mumford |
The Transformations of Man
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Edwin Way Teale |
Autumn Across America
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Robert Penn Warren |
Segregation, the Inner Conflict in the South
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William H. Whyte |
The Organization Man
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Nominations 1956 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Herbert Kubly |
An American in Italy
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Gay Wilson Allen |
The Solitary Singer
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Alan Barth |
Government by Investigation
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Rachel Carson |
The Edge of the Sea
|
Clifford Dowdey |
Land They Fought For
|
John Gunther |
Inside Africa
|
Richard Hofstadter |
The Age of Reform
|
Murray Kempton |
Part of Our Time
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Gift from the Sea
|
Milton Mayer |
They Thought They Were Free
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Allan Temko |
Notre Dame of Paris
|
Harry S. Truman |
Year of Decisions
|
Edmund Wilson |
The scrolls from the Dead Sea
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Nominations 1955 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Joseph Wood Krutch |
The Measure of Man
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Van Wyck Brooks |
Scenes and portraits
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Harrison Brown |
The Challenge of Man's Future
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Elmer Davis |
But we were born free
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Hermann Hagedorn |
The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill
|
Paul Horgan |
Great River
|
John LaFarge, Jr. |
The Manner is Ordinary
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David Lavender |
Bent's Fort
|
Carl Sandburg |
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
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Wallace Stegner |
Beyond the hundreth meridian
|
Norman Thomas |
The test of freedom
|
E. B. White |
The second tree from the corner
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Nominations 1954 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Bruce Catton |
A Stillness at Appomattox
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Nominations 1953 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Bernard DeVoto |
The Course of Empire
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Herbert Agar |
A Declaration of Faith
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Conrad Aiken |
Ushant
|
Frederick Lewis Allen |
The big change
|
Robert Brittain |
Let There Be Bread
|
Van Wyck Brooks |
The confident years
|
Whittaker Chambers |
Witness
|
Eleanor Clark |
Rome and a villa
|
William O. Douglas |
Beyond the high Himalayas
|
Douglas S. Freeman |
George Washington, Vol. V
|
Eric F. Goldman |
Rendezvous with Destiny
|
Learned Hand |
The Spirit of Liberty
|
Irving Howe |
William Faulkner
|
Herbert J. Muller |
The Uses of the Past
|
F. S. C. Northrop |
The taming of the nations
|
Katherine Anne Porter |
The Days Before
|
James G. Randall |
Midstream: Lincoln the President
|
Benjamin Platt Thomas |
Abraham Lincoln
|
Dixon Wecter |
Sam Clemens of Hannibal
|
Kenneth P. Williams |
Lincoln finds a general: a military study of the Civil War
|
Edmund Wilson |
The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties
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Nominations 1952 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Rachel Carson |
The Sea Around Us
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Hannah Arendt |
The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Marshall B. Davidson |
Life in America
|
F. W. Dupee |
Henry James
|
Waldo Frank |
Birth of a world
|
Douglas S. Freeman |
George Washington: A Biography
|
Erich Fromm |
The Forgotten Language
|
Oscar Handlin |
The Uprooted
|
Alfred Kazin |
A Walker in the City
|
Dumas Malone |
Jefferson and the Rights of Man
|
C. Wright Mills |
White Collar: The American Middle Classes
|
Arthur Mizener |
The Far Side of Paradise
|
Lewis Mumford |
The conduct of life.
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Merlo J. Pusey |
Charles Evans Hughes
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Nat Schachner |
Thomas Jefferson
|
William Carlos Williams |
Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
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C. Vann Woodward |
Reunion and reaction
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Nominations 1951 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Newton Arvin |
Herman Melville
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Nominations 1950 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Ralph L. Rusk |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Lincoln Barnett |
The Universe and Dr. Einstein
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Harry Allen Overstreet |
The Mature Mind
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
This I remember
|
Lillian Smith |
Killers of the Dream
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Kenneth P. Williams |
Lincoln finds a general: a military study of the Civil War
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Nominations 1940 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Hans Zinsser |
As I Remember Him, the Biography of R. S
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Nominations 1939 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Wind, Sand and Stars
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Pierre van Paassen |
Days of our years
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Nominations 1938 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Listen! the Wind
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Nominations 1937 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Ève Curie |
Madame Curie
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Lin Yutang |
The importance of living
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Nominations 1936 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Van Wyck Brooks |
The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865
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Victor Heiser |
An American Doctor's Odyssey: Adventures in Forty-Five Countries
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Nominations 1935 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
North to the Orient
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Vincent Sheean |
Personal History
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