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1962: The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White

1963: The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

1964: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

1965: O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones

1966: Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale

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

1968: Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant.

1969: The Armies Of The Night by Norman Mailer

1969: So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos

1970: Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson

1971: The Rising Sun by John Toland

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

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

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

1974: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

1975: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

1976: Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert Neil Butler

1977: Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner

1978: The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

1979: On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson

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

1981: Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske

1982: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

1983: Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan

1984: The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr

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

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

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

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

1988: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

1989: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

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

1991: The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson

1992: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin

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

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

1995: The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner

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

1997: Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger

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

1999: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

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

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

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

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

2004: Gulag: A History (ISBN 0-7679-0056-1) by Anne Applebaum

2005: Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

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