Annal:1992 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power
- 1992 Pulitzer–Nonfiction winner
- 1991 LATimes–History finalist
- 1991 LATimes–Current Interest finalist*
- Score: 16.42
The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil—and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous—from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm.
The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to…
- 1992 Pulitzer–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 6.42
Written between 1977 and 1990, universally acclaimed when they appeared in Godine hardcover, and exploring subjects close to home and close to the bone, these twenty-two diverse essays reveal the spiritual strength and shrewdly lyrical prose for which Andre Dubus has been recognized worldwide.
Personal but never indulgent, sensitive but never maudlin, these forays into Dubus’s past and present conjure up small worlds: a Catholic boyhood in Cajun Louisiana, the transcendental quality of baseball, the luck and slipperiness of life, the precarious business of…
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
Thomas Byrne Edsall, Mary D. Edsall
- 1992 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- 1992 Pulitzer–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 12.42
Three volatile issues—race, rights, and taxes—drive American politics today. They have come to intersect with an entire range of domestic issues, from welfare policy to suburban zoning practices. In an explosive chain reaction, a new conservative voting majority has replaced the once-dominant Democratic presidential coalition, and a new polarization has pitted major segments of society against one another.
How did this massive power shift occur? Thomas Byrne Edsall of the Washington Post and Mary D. Edsall provide answers in this compelling analysis,…
