Annal:2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2007. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- 2007 Pulitzer–Nonfiction winner
- 2006 LATimes–History winner
- 2006 NBA–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 26.57
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives…
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
- 2007 Pulitzer–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 6.57
Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor’s house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law.
This is the Earley family’s compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the “revolving doors” between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that experience-and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
- 2007 Pulitzer–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 6.57
The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks’s Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key participants.
