For a distinguished book upon the history of the United States, three thousand dollars ($3,000).

Awarded to No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)

Doris Kearns Goodwin receives the Pulitzer Prize from George Rupp, Columbia University President.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Stories of Scottsboro" by James Goodman (Pantheon), and "Lincoln in American Memory" by Merrill D. Peterson (Oxford University Press).