Audible Award Winners: Pulitzer Prize

March 13, 2012
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The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award which honors achievements in newspaper journalism, literature, and musical composition. It was established by Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

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Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar delivers a revelatory biography of the Cold War's troubled mastermind....
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George F. Kennan: An American Life (Unabridged)
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By: John Lewis Gaddis
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Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Unabridged)
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By: Stephen Greenblatt
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Years in the making, this is the definitive biography of the legendary black activist....
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Unabridged)
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By: Manning Marable
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Written by cancer physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies is a stunning combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism....
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Unabridged)
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By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
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In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America.....
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From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington....
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Washington: A Life (Unabridged)
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By: Ron Chernow
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A compelling narrative that centers on Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs....
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A Visit from the Goon Squad (Unabridged)
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By: Jennifer Egan
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In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history.....
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This narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.....
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Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have....
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Unabridged)
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By: Liaquat Ahamed
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A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism....
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Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last - until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot....
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Rabbit Is Rich (Unabridged)
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By: John Updike
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Historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War....
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Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's New Orleans apartment seeking refuge from a troubled past but her ethereal spirit irks Stella's husband, the loutish Stanley Kowalski....
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A Streetcar Named Desire (Dramatized)
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By: Tennessee Williams
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An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off......
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Tinkers (Unabridged)
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By: Paul Harding
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Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency....
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This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Unabridged)
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By: Annette Gordon-Reed
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Apparently directionless since his divorce, Frank Bascombe migrates from one non-committal relationship to another....
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Independence Day (Unabridged)
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By: Richard Ford
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The well-to-do Carver family moves to Memphis from Nashville, where they become embroiled in a domestic dispute over the widower patriarch's decision to remarry....
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A Summons to Memphis (Unabridged)
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By: Peter Taylor
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The Prize is as much a history of the 20th-century as of the oil industry itself....
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
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By: Daniel Yergin
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This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity came to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities of racial segregation....
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Plucky and romantic Alice tries to rise above the crudities of her hopelessly shabby background in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic....
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Alice Adams (Unabridged)
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By: Booth Tarkington
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It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat....
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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By: Michael Chabon
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....
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The Guns of August (Unabridged)
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
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Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand-acre farm....
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A Thousand Acres (Unabridged)
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By: Jane Smiley
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Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town and in the world at large....
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Olive Kitteridge (Unabridged)
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By: Elizabeth Strout
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The Reivers is a picaresque story that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi....
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The Reivers (Unabridged)
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By: William Faulkner
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Newland Archer is about to announce his engagement to the docile May Welland when he meets her cousin, the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska....
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The Age of Innocence (Unabridged)
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By: Edith Wharton
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The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family....
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The Good Earth (Unabridged)
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By: Pearl S. Buck
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Battle Cry of Freedom traces how a new nation was forged when a war both sides were sure would amount to little dragged on for four years, costing more American lives than all other wars....
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Battle Cry of Freedom: Volume 1 (Unabridged)
Price: $39.99
By: James McPherson
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Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd....
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Unabridged)
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By: Junot D
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations....
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The Magnificent Ambersons (Unabridged)
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By: Booth Tarkington
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This illuminating study explores the ways in which the defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society....
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Embracing Defeat (Unabridged)
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By: John W. Dower
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Unabridged)
Price: $34.99
By: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
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With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive at a cultural divide....
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Interpreter of Maladies (Unabridged)
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By: Jhumpa Lahiri
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Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.....
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This is the first volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone's Pulitzer Prize winning six-volume work on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson....
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Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale....
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One of Ours (Unabridged)
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By: Willa Cather
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A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans, and the Western intelligence failures....
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Unabridged)
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By: Lawrence Wright
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The fictionalized account of Louisiana's colorful and notorious governor, Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men follows the startling rise and fall of Willie Stark, a country lawyer....
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All the King's Men (Unabridged)
Price: $29.99
By: Robert Penn Warren
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby....
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Beloved (Unabridged)
Price: $35.93
By: Toni Morrison
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Abigail was the last keeper of the house, the last to know the Howland family's secrets....
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The Keepers of the House (Unabridged)
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By: Shirley Ann Grau
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Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed Hemingway's power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature....
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The Old Man and the Sea (Unabridged)
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By: Ernest Hemingway
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Playwright Donald Margulies, weighs the cost of breaking up, and of staying together....
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Dinner with Friends (Dramatized)
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By: Donald Margulies
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This play tells the powerful story of an epileptic woman in her early 40s systematically preparing her own death...and the frantic and touching efforts of her mother to stop her....
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'Night Mother (Dramatized)
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By: Marsha Norman
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This poignant and poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and lectors are employed to educate and entertain the workers....
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Anna in the Tropics (Dramatized)
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By: Nilo Cruz
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In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....
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John Adams (Unabridged)
Price: $79.93
By: David McCullough
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The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the why of human existence....
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The Denial of Death (Unabridged)
Price: $23.07
By: Ernest Becker
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Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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By: Jared Diamond
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The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pulitzer Prize-winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua....
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Unabridged)
Price: $22.99
By: John Kennedy Toole
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