1999
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower

1998
Slaves in the Family
by Edward Ball

1997
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph J. Ellis

1996
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us
by James Carroll

1995
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
by Tina Rosenberg

1994
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
by Sherwin B. Nuland

1993
United States: Essays 1952-1992
by Gore Vidal

1992
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
by Paul Monette

1991
Freedom
by Orlando Patterson

1990
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Ron Chernow

1989
From Beirut to Jersualem
by Thomas L. Friedman

1988
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by Neil Sheehan

1987
The Making of the Atom Bomb
by Richard Rhodes

1986
Arctic Dreams
by Barry Lopez

1985
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas

1984
Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845
by Robert V. Remini

1983
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
by Fox Butterfield

1982
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder

1981
China Men
by Maxine Hong Kingston

1980
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe

1979
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763
by Richard Beale Davis

1978
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
by David McCullough

1977
World of our Fathers
by Irving Howe

1976
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis

1975
Marcel Proust by Roger Shattuck
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn
Interpretation of Schizophrenia by Silvano Arieti
The Life of a Cell: Notes on a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

1974
Deeper into the Movies by Pauline Kael
The Shaping of the Historian by John Clive
Life: The Unfinished Experiment by S.E. Luria

1973
Diderot by Arthur M. Wilson
The Children of Pride Isaiah Trunk by Robert Manson Myers
Judenrat by Isaiah Trunk
The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations by George B. Schaller

1972
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen
Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and the Organized War to Victory by Allan Nevins
The Blue Whale by George L. Small

1971
Cocteau: A Biography by Francis Steegtmuller
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
Science in the British Colonies of America by Raymond Phineas Sterns

1970
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Lillian Hellman
Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson

1969
The Armies of the Night: History as Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert J. Lifton

1968
Selected Essays by William Troy
Memoirs: 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan
Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol

1967
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Justin Kaplan
The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation of the Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay
La Vida by Oscar Lewis

1966
Paris Journal, 1944-1965 by Janet Flanner
A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

1965
Oysters and Lockmariaquer by Eleanor Clark
The Life of Lenin by Louis Fischer
God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion by Norbert Wiener

1964
John Keats: The Making of a Poet by Aileen Ward
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill
Man-Made America by Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev

1963
Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London; Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years
by Leon Edel

1962
The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects
by Lewis Mumford

1961
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
by William L. Shirer

1960
James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann

1959
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael
by J. Christopher Herold

1958
The Lion and the Throne
by Catherine Drinker Brown

1957
Russia Leaves the War
by George F. Kennan

1956
An American in Italy
by Herbert Kubly

1955
The Measure of Man
by Joseph Wood Krutch

1954
A Stillness at Appomattox
by Bruce Catton

1953
The Course of Empire
by Bernard A. De Voto

1952
The Sea Around Us
by Rachel Carson

1951
Herman Melville
by Newton Arvin

1950
Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph L. Rusk

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