Pulitzer Prize For General Non-Fiction - 2000s

2000s

• 2000: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
  • The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
  • Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
• 2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  • Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
• 2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
  • The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
  • War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam
• 2003: "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
  • The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit by Ellen Meloy
  • The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
• 2004: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
  • The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military by Dana Priest
  • Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler
• 2005: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
  • The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
• 2006: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
  • The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
  • Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• 2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
  • Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley
  • Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
• 2008: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
  • The Cigarette Century by Allan M. Brandt
  • The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
• 2009: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
  • The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock
  • Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur L. Herman