2009 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Douglas A. Blackmon

Reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to businesses and provincial farmers….

Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Arthur L. Herman

The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe

William I. Hitchcock