Annal:1990 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- 1990 Pulitzer–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.4
In this paperback reissue, an author/photographer team returns to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans’s inimitable masterwork Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. In 1936, during a brief window of national attention to the topic, Fortune magazine commissioned from Agee and Evans a story on poverty among tenant farmers in Alabama. Agee was famously ambivalent in his role, calling himself a spy and ultimately delivering a book-length manuscript…
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
- 1990 LATimes–History finalist
- 1990 Pulitzer–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 12.4
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval today
In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and dynasties. All of these conflicts, including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis that have flared yet again, come down, in a sense, to the extent to which the Middle East will continue to live with its political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed upon the region…
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- 1991 Aventis-General winner
- 1990 Pulitzer–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 16.41
Tucked into the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. Discovered early in the century, the shale holds the remains of an ancient sea that nurtured more varities of life than can be found in all of our modern oceans.
Darwinian theory says that animals living so long ago were necessarily simple in design and limited in scope. But more recent interpretations unexpectedly reveal the great diversity locked in the shale.
Explosive stuff, for it blasts the belief that the history of life has been a…
