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The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

2007
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright

Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins

2006
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
by Caroline Elkins

Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

2005
Ghost Wars
by Steve Coll

Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum

2004
Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum

A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power

2003
"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power

Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter

2002
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by Diane McWhorter

Hirohito by Herbert P. Bix

2001
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix

Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower

2000
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower

1999
Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee

1998
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond

1997
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health,
and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

by Richard Kluger

1996
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
by Tina Rosenberg

1995
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Jonathan Weiner

1994
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick

1993
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
by Garry Wills

1992
The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin

1991
The Ants
by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson

1990
And Their Children After Them
by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by Richard Rhodes

1988
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes

1987
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
by David K. Shipler

1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas

1986
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
by Joseph Lelyveld

1985
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
by Studs Terkel

1984
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
by Paul Starr

1983
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
by Susan Sheehan

1982
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder

1981
Fin-de Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
by Carl E. Schorske

1980
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter

1979
On Human Nature
by Edward O. Wilson

1978
The Dragons of Eden
by Carl Sagan

1977
Beautiful Swimmers
by William W. Warner

1976
Why Survive? Being Old in America
by Robert N. Butler

1975
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard

1974
The Denial of Death
by the late Ernest Becker

1973
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by Frances Fitzgerald

1973
Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III
by Robert Coles

1972
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
by Barbara W. Tuchman

1971
The Rising Sun
by John Toland

1970
Gandhi's Truth
by Erik H. Erikson

1969
The Armies of the Night
by Norman Mailer

1968
Rousseau and Revolution, the Tenth and Concluding Volume of the Story of Civilization
by Will and Ariel Durant

1967
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
by David Brion Davis

1966
Wandering Through Winter
by Edwin Way Teale

1965
O Strange New World
by Howard Mumford Jones

1964
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
by Richard Hofstadter

1963
The Making of the President 1960
by Theodore H. White
 

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