Annal:2001 Pulitzer Prize for History
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
- 2001 Pulitzer–History winner
- 2000 LATimes–Biography finalist
- Score: 16.51
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic—John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation’s history, the greatest statesmen of their generation—and perhaps any—came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. Ellis focuses on six discrete moments that exemplify the most crucial issues facing the fragile new nation: Burr and…
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
- 2000 LATimes–Current Interest winner
- 2001 Pulitzer–History finalist
- 2000 NBCC–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 22.5
Way Out There in the Blue is a major work of history by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Fire in the Lake. Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ronald Reagan, the most puzzling president of the last half of the twentieth century.
Reagan’s presidency and the man himself have always been difficult to fathom. His influence was enormous, and the few powerful ideas he espoused remain with us still—yet he seemed nothing more than a charming,…
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
- 2001 Pulitzer–History finalist
- 2000 LATimes–History finalist
- Score: 12.51
An esteemed historian offers a compelling re-thinking of the path America has taken toward its goal of universal suffrage
Most Americans take for granted their right to vote, whether they choose to exercise it or not. But the history of suffrage in the U.S. is, in fact,the story of a struggle to achieve this right by our society’s marginalized groups. In The Right to Vote, Duke historian Alexander Keyssar explores the evolution of suffrage over the course of the nation’s history. Examining the many features of the history of the right to vote in the…
