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Rough Crossings by Simon Schama

2006
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
by Simon Schama

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexsievich

2005
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich

The Reformation by David MacCulloch

2004
The Reformation: A History
by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Sons of Mississippi by Paul Hendrickson

2003
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy
by Paul Hendrickson

A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power

2002
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power

Double Fold by Nicholson Baker

2001
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
by Nicholson Baker

Newjack by Ted Conover

2000
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
by Ted Conover

1999
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
by Jonathan Weiner

1998
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Out Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevtich

1997
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman

1996
Bad Land
by Jonathan Raban

1995
A Civil Action
by Jonathan Harr

1994
The Rape of Europa
by Lynn Nicholas

1993
The Land Where the Blues Began
by Alan Lomax

1992
Young Men and Fire
by Norman Maclean

1991
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi

1990
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
by Shelby Steele

1989
The Broken Cord
by Michael Dorris

1988
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
by Taylor Branch

1987
The Making of the Atomic 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
Weapons and Hope
by Freeman Dyson

1983
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
by Seymour M. Hersh

1982
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro

1981
The Mismeasure of a Man
by Stephen Jay Gould

1980
Walter Lippman and the American Century
by Ronald Steel

1979
Munich: The Price of Peace
by Telford Taylor

1978
Facts of Life
by Maureen Howard
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
by Garry Willis

1977
Samuel Johnson
by W. Jackson Bate

1976
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston

1975
Edith Wharton: A Biography
by R.W.B. Lewis
 

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