Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Pulitzer Prize for History Public
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The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Only in the very widest possible sense could this book be called a biography of Andrew Jackson. The figure of …
Phil in SF says: 1946 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III
This book reveals the official inside story of OSRD (Office of Scientific Research and Development). It tells of the plans, …
Phil in SF says: 1947 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
The Rocky Mountain fur trade was the final act in a world drama that began with Champlain, with Columbus, perhaps …
Phil in SF says: 1948 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols
This book records and interprets the history of the most dangerous crisis the Democratic party and the nation ever faced, …
Phil in SF says: 1949 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Phil in SF says: 1950 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Phil in SF says: 1951 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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This is a book that simply had to be written. Some years ago, after reading Oscar Handlin's learned book, Boston's …
Phil in SF says: 1952 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
"The Era of Good Feelings" is the name traditionally given to the eight years of the presidency of James Monroe …
Phil in SF says: 1953 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
This is the story of the last desperate, heartbreaking, cruel year of the Civil War. In the winter of 1864, …
Phil in SF says: 1954 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Phil in SF says: 1955 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the …
Phil in SF says: 1956 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan (Soviet-American relations, 1917-1920, #1)
The troubled days in Russia during World War I, from the Bolshevik seizure of power in November 1917 to Russia's …
Phil in SF says: 1957 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
This is far more than just a history of banking. Rather, banking is used, in the author's words, "as a …
Phil in SF says: 1958 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Republican Era: 1869-1901 by Leonard D. White
THE REPUBLICAN ERA is the fourth volume of Dr. Leonard White's brilliant series, which traces the evolution of our system …
Phil in SF says: 1959 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
In this immensely readable book Margaret Leech has written absorbingly of a little-known personage of our past. McKinley Emerges as …
Phil in SF says: 1960 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
