1973 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner
Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3,
Robert Coles
In the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and, above all, listening to American children. The results of his efforts–revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977–constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies e…
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Frances FitzGerald
This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald’s own research and travels, takes us inside Vietnam-into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and …