Annal:2000 Pulitzer Prize for History
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
- 2000 Pulitzer–History winner
- 1999 LATimes–History finalist
- Score: 16.5
You can think of Freedom from Fear as the academic’s version of The Greatest Generation: like Tom Brokaw, Stanford history professor David M. Kennedy focuses on the years of the Great Depression and the Second World War and how the American people coped with those events. But there the similarities end—and, in terms of the differences, one might begin by noting that the historian’s account is over twice the size of the journalist’s.
Whereas Brokaw made use of extensive interviews, Kennedy relies on published accounts and primary sources, all…
Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
- 2000 Pulitzer–History finalist
- Score: 6.5
An award-winning historian’s beautifully written reconstruction of how Europeans lived in peace and war with Indians on the early American frontier. We know them from Conrad, Greene, and Le Carre, as spies, diplomats, renegades, and traders. They’ve been with us since the mythic past, when Hermes carried messages from the gods to the Greeks, and when Deganawidah with his disciple Hiawatha built the Great League of Peace among the Iroquois. They are the go-betweens, the shadowy figures who move between us and them, linking different worlds. On the Pennsylvania…
The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America
- 2000 Pulitzer–History finalist
- Score: 6.5
At the start of the new millennium, Americans look out on the world triumphant in our political and religious freedom, the power of our armed services, the wealth of our businesses, and the dominance of our language and ideals. It is no exaggeration to say that for the past two centuries Anglo- America has dominated world politics and transformed global culture.
In his revealing new book, The Cousin’s Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America, author Kevin Phillips explores and identifies the powerful relationship between religion,…
