"What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848," by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in History. A review by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker is noted here.Finalists in this category were: "Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power" by Robert Dallek (HarperCollins), and "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War" by the late David Halberstam (Hyperion).The Biography prize goes to "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father," by John Matteson (W.W. Norton).
Finalists in this category were: "The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein" by Martin Duberman (Alfred A. Knopf), and "The Life of Kingsley Amis" by Zachary Leader (Pantheon).The General Nonfiction prize is for "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945," by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins). A New York Times review by Richard J. Evans is noted here.
Finalists in this category were: "The Cigarette Century" by Allan Brandt (Basic Books), and "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century" by Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).The full list is here.
