Annal:1995 Pulitzer Prize for History
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1995. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
- 1995 Pulitzer–History winner
- Score: 10.45
No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and…
- 1995 Pulitzer–History finalist
- Score: 6.45
In 1931, outside the town of Scottsboro, Alabama, nine black youths were charged with the rape of two white women. The case became a cause celebre that shocked America, reawakened the struggle for racial equality, and led finally to two landmark Supreme Court decisions.
In this powerful retelling of the Scottsboro case, James Goodman, an assistant professor of history at Harvard, sets out to answer the question “what happened?” by moving from one point of view to another—the defendants, the two white women, the Communist Party who would shoulder the costs of…
- 1995 Pulitzer–History finalist
- Score: 6.45
Lincoln’s death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, “sorrow—indescribable sorrow” swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln’s body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its praise. It was the apotheosis of the martyred president—the beginning of the transformation of a man into a…
