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2012 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: M. Sullivan, N. Lemann, J. Amoss, S. Gissler, A. Lipinski, R. Beck. K. Carroll; back row, left to right: T. Friedman, J. Diaz, R. Blau, G. Moore, P. Gigot, D. Allen, P. Tash, S. Hahn, E. Robinson, K. Willey, J. Dehli and J. VandeHei.

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Kathleen Carroll, Ann Marie Lipinski and Jim Amoss, co-chairs; Sig Gissler, administrator

Mary Gabriel

Publication
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Citation
An enlightening, richly researched book on the saga of Marx, his family and the ideas and historical events they helped to shape.
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
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Categories: Biography

Richard White

Publication
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Citation
A myth-shattering book that shows how reckless but influential railroad corporations in the late 19th century often profited by failure as well as success.
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
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Categories: History

Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan

Publication
The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden
Citation
A painstaking look at a catastrophic act of terrorism and the nagging questions that have swirled around it.
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Tags: 2012
Categories: History

Anne F. Hyde

Publication
Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Citation
A fresh work tracing how people created families and conducted business in a vast, fur-trading region newly part of an expanding United States.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
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Categories: History

David Foster Wallace

Publication
The Pale King
Citation
A posthumously completed novel, animated by grand ambition, that explores boredom and bureaucracy in the American workplace.
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Tags: 2012
Categories: Fiction

Karen Russell

Publication
Swamplandia!
Citation
An adventure tale about an eccentric family adrift in its failing alligator-wrestling theme park, told by a 13-year-old heroine wise beyond her years.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Tags: 2012
Categories: Fiction

Denis Johnson

Publication
Train Dreams
Citation
A novella about a day laborer in the old American West, bearing witness to terrors and glories with compassionate, heartbreaking calm.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tags: 2012
Categories: Fiction
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