1970s
- 1970: Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson
- 1971: The Rising Sun by John Toland
- 1972: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman
- 1973: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
- 1973: Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3, by Robert Coles
- 1974: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- 1975: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- 1976: Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert Neil Butler
- 1977: Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner
- 1978: The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
- 1979: On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
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