| Year | Title | Author |
|---|
| 2010 |
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy |
David E. Hoffman |
| 2009 |
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II |
Douglas A. Blackmon |
| 2008 |
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 |
Saul Friedlander |
| 2007 |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 |
Lawrence Wright |
| 2006 |
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya |
Caroline Elkins |
| 2005 |
Ghost Wars |
Steve Coll |
| 2004 |
Gulag: a History |
Anne Applebaum |
| 2003 |
"A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide |
Samantha Power |
| 2002 |
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution |
Diane McWhorter |
| 2001 |
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
Herbert P Bix |
| 2000 |
Embracing defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
John W Dower |
| 1999 |
Annals of the Former World |
John McPhee |
| 1998 |
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
Jared Diamond |
| 1997 |
Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris |
Richard Kluger |
| 1996 |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism |
Tina Rosenberg |
| 1995 |
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time |
Jonathan Weiner |
| 1994 |
Lenin's Tomb |
David Remnick |
| 1993 |
Lincoln at Gettysburg |
Garry Wills |
| 1992 |
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power |
Daniel Yergin |
| 1991 |
The Ants |
Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson |
| 1990 |
And Their Children After Them
Dale Maharidge and Michael | Williamson |
| 1989 |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
Neil Sheehan |
| 1988 |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
Richard Rhodes |
| 1987 |
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land |
David K. Shipler |
| 1986 |
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
J. Anthony Lucas |
| 1985 |
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two |
Studs Terkel |
| 1984 |
The Social Transformation of American Medicine |
Paul Starr |
| 1983 |
Is There No Place on Earth for Me |
Susan Sheehan |
| 1982 |
The Soul of a New Machine |
Tracy Kidder |
| 1981 |
Fin-de Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture |
Carl E. Schorske |
| 1980 |
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid |
Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| 1979 |
On Human Nature |
Edward O. Wilson |
| 1978 |
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 |
Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III,
Robert Coles Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam |
Francis FitzGerald |
| 1972 |
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 |
Barbara W. Tuchman |
| 1971 |
The Rising Sun: the Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 |
John Toland |
| 1970 |
Ghandhi's Truth |
Erik H. Erikson |
1969 |
The Armies of the Night | Norman Mailer |
| So Human An Animal |
Rene Jules Dubos |
| 1968 |
Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth and concluding volume of The Story of Civilization |
Will and 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 |
