Pulitzer-díjas ismeretterjesztő könyvek listája
Ebben a listában a Pulitzer-díj „ismeretterjesztő könyvek” kategóriájának jelöltjei és nyertesei találhatóak.
Év | Könyv | Szerző |
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2022 | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City | Andrea Elliott |
Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism | Carla Power | |
The Family Roe: An American Story | Joshua Prager | |
2021 | Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy | David Zucchino |
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning | Cathy Park Hong | |
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country | Sierra Crane Murdoch | |
2020 | The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America | Greg Grandin |
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care | Anne Boyer | |
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimaging Life | Louise Aronson | |
Solitary | Albert Woodfox és Leslie George | |
2019 | Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America | Eliza Griswold |
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers | Bernice Yeung | |
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore | Elizabeth Rush | |
2018 | Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America | James Forman Jr. |
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us | Richard O. Prum | |
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World | Suzy Hansen | |
2017 | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond |
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism | John Donvan és Caren Zucker | |
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery | Micki McElya | |
2016 | Fekete lobogók: az Iszlám Állam felemelkedése (Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS) | Joby Warrick |
Between the World and Me | Ta-Neshi Coates | |
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of Quran | Carla Power | |
2015 | A hatodik kihalás (The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History) | Elizabeth Kolbert |
No Good Men Among the Living | Anand Gopal | |
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China | Evan Osnos | |
2014 | Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation | Dan Fagin |
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide | Gary J. Bass | |
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War | Fred Kaplan | |
2013 | Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys | Gilbert King |
Az örök szépségen túl (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity) | Katherine Boo | |
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature | David George Haskell | |
2012 | Egy reneszánsz könyvvadász: hogyan vált modernné a világunk? (The Swerve: How the World Became Modern) | Stephen Greenblatt |
One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing | Diane Ackerman | |
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men | Mara Hvistendahl | |
2011 | Betegségek betegsége: mindent a rákról (The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer) | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
Hogyan változtatja meg agyunkat az internet? : a sekélyesek kora (The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains) | Nicholas Carr | |
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History | S. C. Gwynne | |
2010 | The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy | David E. Hoffman |
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities | John Cassidy | |
Isten evolúciója: Vallások és kultúrák (The Evolution of God) | Robert Wright | |
2009 | Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II | Douglas A. Blackmon |
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age | Arthur Herman | |
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe | William I. Hitchcock | |
2008 | The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 | Saul Friedländer |
The Cigarette Century | Allan Brandt | |
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century | Alex Ross | |
2007 | Magasba nyúló tornyok: Az al-Kaida útja (The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11) | Lawrence Wright |
Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness | Pete Earley | |
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq | Thomas E. Ricks | |
2006 | Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya | Caroline Elkins |
A háború után: Európa története 1945 óta (Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945) | Tony Judt | |
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq | George Packer | |
2005 | Ghost Wars | Steve Coll |
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found | Suketu Mehta | |
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story | Luis Alberto Urrea | |
2004 | A Gulag története (Gulag: A History) | Anne Applebaum |
Rembrandt’s Jews | Steven Nadler | |
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military | Dana Priest | |
2003 | ”A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide | Samantha Power |
The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature | Steven Pinker | |
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit | Ellen Meloy | |
2002 | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution | Diane McWhorter |
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals | David Halberstam | |
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression | Andrew Solomon | |
2001 | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan | Herbert P. Bix |
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing | Ted Conover | |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave Eggers | |
2000 | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | John W. Dower |
Az elegáns univerzum: Szuperhúrok, rejtett dimenziók és a végső elmélet kihívása (The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest forthe Ultimate Theory) | Brian Greene | |
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds | Scott Weidensaul | |
1999 | Annals of the Former World | John McPhee |
Crime and Punishment in America | Elliott Currie | |
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do | Judith Rich Harris | |
1998 | Háborúk, járványok, technikák: A társadalmak fátumai (Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies) | Jared Diamond |
Ég és jég: Személyes beszámoló a Mount Everest-i hegymászó-tragédiáról (Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster) | Jon Krakauer | |
Hogyan működik az elme (How the Mind Works) | Steven Pinker | |
1997 | Ashes To Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris | Richard Kluger |
The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond | Samuel G. Freedman | |
Fame and Folly | Cynthia Ozick | |
1996 | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism | Tina Rosenberg |
Darwin veszélyes ideája (Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life) | Daniel Dennett | |
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder | Lawrence Weschler | |
1995 | The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time | Jonathan Weiner |
Éjfél a jó és a rossz kertjében: Savannah-i történet (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story) | John Berendt | |
Hogyan halunk meg? (How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter) | Sherwin B. Nuland | |
1994 | Lenin sírja: A szovjet birodalom végnapjai (Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire) | David Remnick |
A XX. század és az újkor vége (The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age) | John Lukacs | |
The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud | Peter Gay | |
1993 | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America | Garry Wills |
A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War | Susan Griffin | |
Where the Buffalo Roam | Anne Matthews | |
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father | Richard Rodriguez | |
1992 | The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money and Power | Daniel Yergin |
Broken Vessels | Andre Dubus | |
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics | Thomas Byrne Edsall és Mary D. Edsall | |
1991 | The Ants | Bert Holldobler és Edward Osborne Wilson |
River of Traps: A Village Life | William duBuys és Alex Harris | |
Looking for a Ship | John McPhee | |
1990 | And Their Children After Them | Dale Maharidge és Michael Williamson |
A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922 | David Fromkin | |
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History | Stephen Jay Gould | |
1989 | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | Neil Sheehan |
Danger and Survival | McGeorge Bundy | |
Coming of Age in the Milky Way | Timothy Ferris | |
The Last Farmer | Howard Kohn | |
1988 | Az atombomba története (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) | Richard Rhodes |
Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society | Daniel Callahan | |
Káosz: Egy új tudomány születése (Chaos: Making a New Science) | James Gleick | |
1987 | Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land | David K. Shipler |
Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir | Cyra McFadden | |
Rising from the Plains | John McPhee | |
1986 | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families | J. Anthony Lukas |
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | Joseph Lelyveld | |
Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life | Robert N. Bellah | |
1985 | The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two | Studs Terkel |
Dawn to the West | Donald Keene | |
Endless Enemies | Jonathan Kwitny | |
1984 | The Social Transformation Of American Medicine | Paul Starr |
Conversations With the Enemy | Winston Groom és Duncan Spencer | |
Wild Justice | Susan Jacoby | |
1983 | Is There No Place On Earth For Me? | Susan Sheehan |
Terrorists and Novelists | Diane Johnson | |
The Fate of the Earth | Jonathan Schell | |
1982 | The Soul of A New Machine | Tracy Kidder |
Basin and Range | John McPhee | |
Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor | Diana Trilling | |
1981 | Bécsi századvég: Politika és kultúra (Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture) | Carl E. Schorske |
Southerners: A Journalist’s Odyssey | Marshall Frady | |
China Men | Maxine Hong Kingston | |
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War | William Manchester | |
1980 | Gödel, Escher, Bach: Egybefont Gondolatok Birodalma (Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid) | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
The Madwoman in the Attic | Sandra M. Gilbert és Susan Gubar | |
The Medusa and the Snail | Lewis Thomas | |
1979 | On Human Nature | Edward Osborne Wilson |
1978 | Az éden sárkányai: Tűnődések az emberi intelligencia evolúciójáról (The Dragons of Eden) | Carl Sagan |
1977 | Beautiful Swimmers | William W. Warner |
1976 | Why Survive?: Being Old In America | Robert N. Butler |
1975 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard |
1974 | The Denial of Death | Ernest Becker |
1973 | Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam | Frances FitzGerald |
Children of Crisis | Robert Coles | |
1972 | Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 | Barbara W. Tuchman |
1971 | The Rising Sun | John Toland |
1970 | Gandhi’s Truth | Erik H. Erikson |
1969 | Az éjszaka hadai: A történelem mint regény, a regény mint történelem (The Armies Of The Night) | Norman Mailer |
So Human An Animal | René Jules Dubos | |
1968 | Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization | Will és Ariel Durant |
1967 | The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture | David Brion Davis |
1966 | Wandering Through Winter | Edwin Way Teale |
1965 | O Strange New World | Howard Mumford Jones |
1964 | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life | Richard Hofstadter |
1963 | The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman |
1962 | The Making of the President 1960 | Theodore H. White |
Források
- The Pulitzer Prizes – General Nonfiction (angol nyelven). The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University. (Hozzáférés: 2011. szeptember 19.)