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title="Nonfiction">Nonfiction</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">December 1990</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">912</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-50248-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-50248-4">0-671-50248-4</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hardcover" title="Hardcover">hardcover</a>)<br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-79932-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-79932-0">0-671-79932-0</a> (<a href="/wiki/Paperback" title="Paperback">paperback</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">338.2/7282/0904 20</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">HD9560.6 .Y47 1990</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Quest:_Energy,_Security,_and_the_Remaking_of_the_Modern_World" title="The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World">The Quest</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power</b></i> is <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Yergin" title="Daniel Yergin">Daniel Yergin</a>'s 1990 history of the global <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_industry" title="Petroleum industry">petroleum industry</a> from the 1850s through 1990. <i>The Prize</i> became a bestseller, helped by its release date in December 1990, four months after the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Kuwait">invasion of Kuwait</a> ordered by <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a> and one month before the U.S.-led coalition began the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a> to oust <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraqi</a> troops from that country.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book eventually went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.<sup id="cite_ref-Pulitzer_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pulitzer-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Prize</i> has been called the "definitive" history of the oil industry, even a "bible".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popular_success">Popular success</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_Oil,_Money,_and_Power&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Popular success"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1992 <i>The Prize</i> won the <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Nonfiction" title="Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction">Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-Pulitzer_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pulitzer-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it has been translated into fourteen languages. Now out of print in hardcover, <i>The Prize</i> was published in a paperback edition (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-79932-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-79932-0">0-671-79932-0</a>) that was released at the end of 1992, and is currently in print. <i>The Prize</i> is often cited as essential background reading for students of the history of <a href="/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum">petroleum</a>. Prof. Joseph R. Rudolph Jr. said in <i><a href="/wiki/Library_Journal" title="Library Journal">Library Journal</a></i>, for example: </p> <blockquote><p>Written by one of the foremost U.S. authorities on energy, it is a major work in the field, replete with enough insight to satisfy the scholar and sufficient concern with the drama and colorful personalities in the history of oil to capture the interest of the general public. Though lengthy, the book never drags in developing its themes: the relationship of oil to the rise of modern capitalism; the intertwining relations between oil, politics, and international power; and the relationship between oil and society in what Yergin calls today's age of "Hydrocarbon Man".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_Oil,_Money,_and_Power&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ten years in the making,<sup id="cite_ref-booknotes_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-booknotes-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Prize</i> draws on extensive research carried out by the author and his staff, including <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sue_Lena_Thompson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sue Lena Thompson (page does not exist)">Sue Lena Thompson</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Laubacher&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Laubacher (page does not exist)">Robert Laubacher</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Lumsden" title="Geoffrey Lumsden">Geoffrey Lumsden</a>. Daniel Yergin has excellent connections with the oil industry, and is the Chairman of a private energy consulting firm called <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Energy_Research_Associates" title="Cambridge Energy Research Associates">Cambridge Energy Research Associates</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-booknotes_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-booknotes-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Global Energy Analyst for NBC and CNBC, member of the board of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Energy_Association" title="United States Energy Association">United States Energy Association</a> and of the <a href="/wiki/U.S.-Russia_Business_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S.-Russia Business Council">U.S.-Russia Business Council</a>. Yergin's history has 61 pages of notes and a bibliography of 26 pages that lists as sources not only 700 books, articles, and dissertations, 60 government documents, 28 "data sources", more than 34 manuscript collections, fifteen government archives, eight oral histories, and four oil company archives (<a href="/wiki/Amoco" title="Amoco">Amoco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chevron_Corporation" title="Chevron Corporation">Chevron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Oil" title="Gulf Oil">Gulf</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Dutch Shell">Royal Dutch Shell</a>), but also 80 personal interviews with key individuals like <a href="/wiki/James_Schlesinger" class="mw-redirect" title="James Schlesinger">James Schlesinger</a> and <a href="/wiki/Armand_Hammer" title="Armand Hammer">Armand Hammer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_Oil,_Money,_and_Power&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Prize</i> was the basis for an eight-part, eight-hour documentary television series titled <i>The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power</i>, narrated by <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sutherland" title="Donald Sutherland">Donald Sutherland</a> and broadcast by <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> in 1992–1993. The series is said to have been seen by 20 million people in the United States. </p><p>The book is also available as an <a href="/wiki/Abridged" class="mw-redirect" title="Abridged">abridged</a> <a href="/wiki/Audiobook" title="Audiobook">audiobook</a>, read by <a href="/wiki/Bob_Jamieson" title="Bob Jamieson">Bob Jamieson</a> with a run time of 2 hours and 53 minutes. </p><p>In 2011 Yergin's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Quest:_Energy,_Security,_and_the_Remaking_of_the_Modern_World" title="The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World">The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World</a></i> was published by <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Penguin Press">Penguin Press</a>. <i>The Quest</i> is the sequel to <i>The Prize</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin_of_the_title">Origin of the title</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_Oil,_Money,_and_Power&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Origin of the title"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name of the book is taken from a quote by <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> in 1912, when he was <a href="/wiki/First_Lord_of_the_Admiralty" title="First Lord of the Admiralty">First Lord of the Admiralty</a>, long before becoming <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a>. He was arguing for the conversion of British warships from coal to fuel oil, but noted the geopolitical ramifications of tying Britain's fortunes to oil. </p><p>As Yergin quotes Churchill: </p> <blockquote><p>To build any large additional number of oil-burning ships meant basing our naval supremacy upon oil. But oil was not found in appreciable quantities in our islands. If we required it we must carry it by sea in peace or war from distant countries. We had, on the other hand, the finest supply of the best steam coal in the world, safe in our mines under our own land. To commit the Navy irrevocably to oil was indeed to "take arms against a sea of troubles." Yet, if the difficulties and risk could be surmounted, "we should be able to raise the whole power and efficiency of the Navy to a definitely higher level; better ships, better crews, higher economies, more intense forms of war power"—in a word, "<b>mastery itself was the prize of the venture.</b>" [Emphasis added]</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_Oil,_Money,_and_Power&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">MIT Communications Forum: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/ivory.html">"Beyond the Ivory Tower"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110706035537/http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/ivory.html">Archived</a> 2011-07-06 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, February 18, 1999.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leslie H. Gelb, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/09/books/the-stuff-that-makes-the-world-go-round.html?pagewanted=all">"The Stuff That Makes the World Go Round"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>, December 9, 1990.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pulitzer-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Pulitzer_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Pulitzer_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/daniel-yergin">"The 1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction: <i>The Prize</i>, by Daniel Yergin"</a>. The Pulitzer Prizes<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-09-28</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+1992+Pulitzer+Prize+Winner+in+General+Nonfiction%3A+The+Prize%2C+by+Daniel+Yergin&rft.pub=The+Pulitzer+Prizes&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pulitzer.org%2Fwinners%2Fdaniel-yergin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Prize%3A+The+Epic+Quest+for+Oil%2C+Money%2C+and+Power" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Matthew Yeomans, <i>Oil: Anatomy of an Industry</i>. New York & London: New Press, 2004. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56584-885-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-56584-885-3">1-56584-885-3</a>, p. 220</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.dclibrary.org/client/en_US/dcpl/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:408576/ada">Library Journal Review: <i>The Prize</i></a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-booknotes-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-booknotes_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-booknotes_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/16032-1/Daniel+Yergin.aspx"><i>Booknotes</i> interview with Yergin on <i>The Prize</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151222110430/http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/16032-1/Daniel+Yergin.aspx">Archived</a> 2015-12-22 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, January 27, 1991.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Prize</i>, bibliography.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_Oil,_Money,_and_Power&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" 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title="The Making of the President 1960">The Making of the President 1960</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Theodore_H._White" title="Theodore H. White">Theodore White</a> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Guns_of_August" title="The Guns of August">The Guns of August</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_W._Tuchman" title="Barbara W. Tuchman">Barbara W. Tuchman</a> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_American_Life" title="Anti-intellectualism in American Life">Anti-intellectualism in American Life</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter" title="Richard Hofstadter">Richard Hofstadter</a> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/O_Strange_New_World" title="O Strange New World">O Strange New World</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Mumford_Jones" title="Howard Mumford Jones">Howard Mumford Jones</a> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wandering_Through_Winter" title="Wandering Through Winter">Wandering Through Winter</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Way_Teale" title="Edwin Way Teale">Edwin Way Teale</a> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Problem_of_Slavery_in_Western_Culture" title="The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture">The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Brion_Davis" title="David Brion Davis">David Brion Davis</a> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rousseau_and_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Rousseau and Revolution">Rousseau and Revolution</a></i>, vol. 10 of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization" title="The Story of Civilization">The Story of Civilization</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Will_Durant" title="Will Durant">Will</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ariel_Durant" title="Ariel Durant">Ariel Durant</a> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/So_Human_an_Animal" title="So Human an Animal">So Human an Animal</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Dubos" title="René Dubos">René Dubos</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/The_Armies_of_the_Night" title="The Armies of the Night">The Armies of the Night</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Norman_Mailer" title="Norman Mailer">Norman Mailer</a> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gandhi%27s_Truth" title="Gandhi's Truth">Gandhi's Truth</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Erik_Erikson" title="Erik Erikson">Erik Erikson</a> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rising_Sun" title="The Rising Sun">The Rising Sun</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Toland_(historian)" title="John Toland (historian)">John Toland</a> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stilwell_and_the_American_Experience_in_China,_1911%E2%80%9345" title="Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45">Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_W._Tuchman" title="Barbara W. Tuchman">Barbara W. Tuchman</a> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fire_in_the_Lake" title="Fire in the Lake">Fire in the Lake</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Frances_FitzGerald_(journalist)" title="Frances FitzGerald (journalist)">Frances FitzGerald</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Children_of_Crisis" title="Children of Crisis">Children of Crisis</a></i> vols. 2 and 3 by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Coles_(psychiatrist)" title="Robert Coles (psychiatrist)">Robert Coles</a> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death" title="The Denial of Death">The Denial of Death</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Becker" title="Ernest Becker">Ernest Becker</a> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek" title="Pilgrim at Tinker Creek">Pilgrim at Tinker Creek</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Annie_Dillard" title="Annie Dillard">Annie Dillard</a> (1975)</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png/60px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png/90px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png/120px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png 2x" data-file-width="1114" data-file-height="1110" /></a></span><br /><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png/60px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png/90px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png/120px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png 2x" data-file-width="1115" data-file-height="1101" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Why_Survive%3F_Being_Old_in_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Why Survive? Being Old in America">Why Survive?</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_N._Butler" title="Robert N. Butler">Robert N. Butler</a> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Beautiful_Swimmers" title="Beautiful Swimmers">Beautiful Swimmers</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_W._Warner" title="William W. Warner">William W. Warner</a> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dragons_of_Eden" title="The Dragons of Eden">The Dragons of Eden</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Sagan" title="Carl Sagan">Carl Sagan</a> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On_Human_Nature" title="On Human Nature">On Human Nature</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/E._O._Wilson" title="E. O. Wilson">E. O. Wilson</a> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach" title="Gödel, Escher, Bach">Gödel, Escher, Bach</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter" title="Douglas Hofstadter">Douglas Hofstadter</a> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fin-de-si%C3%A8cle_Vienna" title="Fin-de-siècle Vienna">Fin-de-siècle Vienna</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Emil_Schorske" title="Carl Emil Schorske">Carl Emil Schorske</a> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine" title="The Soul of a New Machine">The Soul of a New Machine</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Tracy_Kidder" title="Tracy Kidder">Tracy Kidder</a> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Is_There_No_Place_on_Earth_for_Me%3F" title="Is There No Place on Earth for Me?">Is There No Place on Earth for Me?</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Susan_Sheehan" title="Susan Sheehan">Susan Sheehan</a> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Social_Transformation_of_American_Medicine" title="The Social Transformation of American Medicine">The Social Transformation of American Medicine</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Starr" title="Paul Starr">Paul Starr</a> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Good_War" title="The Good War">The Good War</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Studs_Terkel" title="Studs Terkel">Studs Terkel</a> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Common_Ground_(Lukas_book)" title="Common Ground (Lukas book)">Common Ground</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._Anthony_Lukas" title="J. Anthony Lukas">J. Anthony Lukas</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Move_Your_Shadow" title="Move Your Shadow">Move Your Shadow</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Lelyveld" title="Joseph Lelyveld">Joseph Lelyveld</a> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arab_and_Jew:_Wounded_Spirits_in_a_Promised_Land" title="Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land">Arab and Jew</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_K._Shipler" title="David K. Shipler">David K. Shipler</a> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb" title="The Making of the Atomic Bomb">The Making of the Atomic Bomb</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rhodes" title="Richard Rhodes">Richard Rhodes</a> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Bright_Shining_Lie" title="A Bright Shining Lie">A Bright Shining Lie</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Sheehan" title="Neil Sheehan">Neil Sheehan</a> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/And_Their_Children_After_Them_(Maharidge_and_Williamson_book)" title="And Their Children After Them (Maharidge and Williamson book)">And Their Children After Them</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Dale_Maharidge" title="Dale Maharidge">Dale Maharidge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Williamson_(photographer)" title="Michael Williamson (photographer)">Michael Williamson</a> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ants" title="The Ants">The Ants</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Bert_H%C3%B6lldobler" title="Bert Hölldobler">Bert Hölldobler</a> and <a href="/wiki/E._O._Wilson" title="E. O. Wilson">E. O. Wilson</a> (1991)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Prize</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Yergin" title="Daniel Yergin">Daniel Yergin</a> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_at_Gettysburg" title="Lincoln at Gettysburg">Lincoln at Gettysburg</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Garry_Wills" title="Garry Wills">Garry Wills</a> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lenin%27s_Tomb:_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire" title="Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire">Lenin's Tomb</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Remnick" title="David Remnick">David Remnick</a> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beak_of_the_Finch" title="The Beak of the Finch">The Beak of the Finch</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Weiner" title="Jonathan Weiner">Jonathan Weiner</a> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Haunted_Land" title="The Haunted Land">The Haunted Land</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Tina_Rosenberg" title="Tina Rosenberg">Tina Rosenberg</a> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ashes_to_Ashes_(Kluger_book)" title="Ashes to Ashes (Kluger book)">Ashes to Ashes</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Kluger" title="Richard Kluger">Richard Kluger</a> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel" title="Guns, Germs, and Steel">Guns, Germs, and Steel</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jared_Diamond" title="Jared Diamond">Jared Diamond</a> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Annals_of_the_Former_World" title="Annals of the Former World">Annals of the Former World</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_McPhee" title="John McPhee">John McPhee</a> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Embracing_Defeat" title="Embracing Defeat">Embracing Defeat</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_W._Dower" title="John W. Dower">John W. Dower</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–2025</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hirohito_and_the_Making_of_Modern_Japan" title="Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan">Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Herbert_P._Bix" title="Herbert P. Bix">Herbert P. 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