Year |
Title |
Author |
| 2001 |
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
Herbert P. Bix |
| 2000 |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of
WWII |
John W. Dower |
| 1999 |
Annals of the Former World |
John McPhee |
| 1998 |
Guns, Germs, and Steel |
Jared Diamond |
| 1997 |
Ashes to Ashes |
Richard Kluger |
| 1996 |
The Haunted Land |
Tina Rosenberg |
| 1995 |
The Beak of the Finch |
Jonathan Weiner |
| 1994 |
Lenin's Tomb |
David Remnick |
| 1993 |
Lincoln at Gettysburg |
Garry Wills |
| 1992 |
The Prize |
Daniel Yergin |
| 1991 |
The Ants |
Bert Holldobler
& Edward O. Wilson |
| 1990 |
And Their Children After Them |
Dale Maharidge
& Michael Williamson |
| 1989 |
A Bright Shining Lie |
Neil Sheeha |
| 1988 |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
Richard Rhodes |
| 1987 |
Arab and Jew |
David Shipler |
| 1986 |
Common Ground |
J. Anthony Lukas |
| 1985 |
The Good War |
Studs Terkel |
| 1984 |
The Social Transformation of American Medicine |
Paul Starr |
| 1983 |
Is There No Place on Earth for Me? |
Susan Sheeham |
| 1982 |
The Soul of a New Machine |
Tracy Kidder |
| 1981 |
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna |
Carl E. Schorske |
| 1980 |
Godel, Escher, Bach |
Douglas R. Hofstadler |
| 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 |
Fire in the Lake |
Frances Fitzgerald |
| 1972 |
Stilwell and the American Experience in China,
1911-1945 |
Barbara W. Tuchman |
| 1971 |
The Rising Sun |
John Toland |
| 1970 |
Gandhi's Truth |
Erik H. Erikson |
| 1969 |
The Armies of the Night |
Norman Mailer |
| 1968 |
Rousseau and Revolution |
Will & 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 |