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1986 Pulitzer Prize Board
Board lander photo caption

starting left going back around table: O. Elliott, E. Roberts, M. Gartner, H. Hays, R. Leonard, M. Sovern, J. Pulitzer, W. Raspberry, R. Christopher, C. Sitton, C. Saikowski, R. Baker (absent from photo: H. Gray, J. Hoge, D. Laventhol, C.K. McClatchy, W. Phillips, R. Wilkins) Credit: Joe Pineiro/Columbia University

Board Lander Sub Title
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., chair; Robert Christopher, secretary.

George Rochberg

Publication
Symphony No. 5
Citation
Premiered on March 13, 1986 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Tags: 1986
Categories: Music

Joel Kaplan and James Pratt

Publication
The Tennessean
Citation
For their investigation of Congressman Bill Boner's financial dealings, which revealed flagrant abuses and caused the U.S. Justice Department to re-open an investigation of the matter.
Location
Nashville, TN
Tags: 1986

Kerby A. Miller

Publication
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Tags: 1986
Categories: History

Forrest McDonald

Publication
Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Tags: 1986
Categories: History

Jacqueline Jones

Publication
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Publisher
Basic Books
Tags: 1986
Categories: History

Staff

Publication
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Citation
For its coverage, under deadline pressure, of the MOVE siege and its tragic aftermath.
Tags: 1986