Annal:2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2004. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2004 Pulitzer–Nonfiction winner
- 2003 LATimes–History finalist
- 2003 NBA–Nonfiction finalist
- 2003 NBCC–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 28.54
The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust.
The Gulag entered the world’s historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s epic oral history of the Soviet camps, The Gulag Archipelago. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, dozens of memoirs and new studies covering aspects of that system have been published in Russia and the West. Using these new resources as well as her own…
Steven Nadler, Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn
- 2004 Pulitzer–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 6.54
There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history’s greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt’s works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wonder that the myth has endured for centuries.
Rembrandt’s Jews puts this myth to the test as it examines both the legend and the reality of Rembrandt’s relationship to Jews and Judaism. In his elegantly written and…
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military
- 2004 Pulitzer–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 6.54
Walk with America’s generals, grunts, and Green Berets through the maze of unconventional wars and unsettled peace.
Four-star generals who lead the military during wartime reign like proconsuls abroad in peacetime. Secretive Green Berets trained to hunt down terrorists are assigned to seduce ruthless authoritarian regimes. Pimply young soldiers taught to seize airstrips instead play mayor, detective, and social worker in a gung-ho but ill-fated attempt to rebuild a nation after the fighting stops.
The Mission is a boots-on-the-ground account of…
