Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Long-listed for the National Book Award
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist
New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
"A beautiful book, written so well, that gives us the origins and consequences of where we are . . . I can see why the Pulitzer prize] was awarded." --Trevor Noah, The Daily Show
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The Pulitzer. The Man Booker Prize. The National Book Awards. The Edgar Awards. All of them generally mean one thing: the books they're awarded to definitely don't suck. In fact, they're brilliant and incredible and moving and mesmerizing and disturbing and powerful and funny and, well...you'll just have and read them for yourself. Below are the winners of the most prestigious prizes, so enjoy.