Posted by bronxcheer on 5/23/2019 5:25:00 AM (view original):
It's non-fiction

This book won in the History category, not Non-Fiction.

History is non-fiction, i.e. not a novel as someone suggested

Posted by bronxcheer on 5/23/2019 9:00:00 AM (view original):
History is non-fiction, i.e. not a novel as someone suggested

I don't argue that. Pulitzer is the group that have both a history and non-fiction category. From what I gleaned from the Pulitzer website, history covers only the history of the USA whereas non-fiction covers everything else.

Posted by bagchucker on 5/23/2019 12:17:00 AM (view original):

Posted by gomiami1972 on 5/22/2019 9:01:00 PM (view original):
I might need to check out the Devoto novel. Back then, they generally gave out Pulitzers based on actual merit.

don't leave me hanging

list me some Pulitzers unmerited

General principle.

I discount all Pulitzers awarded since 1980 when they went to a finalist format. The Pulitzer shouldn't be the Academy Awards...announce the winner, give them a plaque and be done with it.

I never discussed the category they gave the Pulitzer for, I was describing the genre of book I was reading.

Posted by bronxcheer on 5/23/2019 9:48:00 AM (view original):
I never discussed the category they gave the Pulitzer for, I was describing the genre of book I was reading.

Sounds good. I'm going to check the book out.

Posted by gomiami1972 on 5/23/2019 9:48:00 AM (view original):

Posted by bagchucker on 5/23/2019 12:17:00 AM (view original):

Posted by gomiami1972 on 5/22/2019 9:01:00 PM (view original):
I might need to check out the Devoto novel. Back then, they generally gave out Pulitzers based on actual merit.

don't leave me hanging

list me some Pulitzers unmerited

General principle.

I discount all Pulitzers awarded since 1980 when they went to a finalist format. The Pulitzer shouldn't be the Academy Awards...announce the winner, give them a plaque and be done with it.

curmudgeon!

no juicers in your hall

Posted by bagchucker on 5/11/2019 11:38:00 AM (view original):
The Cooperstown Casebook by Jay Jaffe

"...he was also a terrible defender whose -195 fielding out-stanks every player except Derek Jeter"

HA!

his essays on the gray areas the tweeners the controversial are good

C Ted Simmons
1B David Ortiz
2B Bobby Grich, Lou Whitaker
SS Alan Trammel
3B Dick Allen, Edgar Martinez
LF Tim Raines, Minnie Minoso
CF Andruw Jones
RF Larry Walker
SP Curt Schilling, Mike Mussina
RP Mariano Rivera

but really the heart of this book for me is THE ROUNDUP

i lists

for history buffs
history books i have signed by the author - partial list....no order
history buffs will know the icons

1. bruce catton - the coming fury
2. john j. hennessey - the first battle of manassas....return to bull run
3. stephen fried - rush ( benjamin )
4. allan nevins - the emergence of lincoln
5. henry kissinger - world order ....such a german title...................
6. tobias wolf - in pharohs army
7. craig symonds - lincoln and his admirals
8. james mcpherson - the cause of comrads
9. james a. bill - the eagle and the lion - from george keenan's personal library...inscribed to him
10. joe hoefel - the iraq lie
10. abba eban - personal witness
11. barbara boxer - strangers in the senate...frrom private collection of allyson schwartz
12. robert a. caro - the years of lyndon johnson - volumes 1, 2, 4
13. richard current and e.b. long - mr. lincoln
14. jimmy carter - living faith

Great collection, dino27. Here are some of my favorite history books, unfortunately none of them signed. I didn't include biographies.

The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
The Second World War Winston Churchill
A Stillness At Appomattox Bruce Catton
The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman
Hiroshima John Hersey
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer
The Black Jacobins C.L.R. James
The Histories Herodotus
The Great Game Peter Hopkirk
Search for Modern China Jonathan Spence
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Dee Brown
A History of the Arab Peoples Albert Hourani
Guns, Germs & Steel Jared Diamond
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Daniel Yergin
A Bright Shining Lie Neil Sheehan
1776 David McCullough
The Civil War: A Narrative Shelby Foote
Battle Cry of Freedom James McPherson
The Scramble for Africa Thomas Pakenham
Nuremberg Diary Gustave Gilbert
We Were Soldiers Once... And Young Harold Moore
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Hard Times Studs Terkel
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides

Good list, I would add a few of my faves:

Dreadnought--- Robert K. Massie
The Path Between the Seas--- David McCullough
Son of the Morning Star----Evan S. Connell
Undaunted Courage--- Stephen E. Ambrose
On the Border with Crook----John G. Bourke
The Coldest Winter----David Halberstam

Posted by thunder1008 on 6/3/2019 1:52:00 AM (view original):
Great collection, dino27. Here are some of my favorite history books, unfortunately none of them signed. I didn't include biographies.

The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
The Second World War Winston Churchill
A Stillness At Appomattox Bruce Catton
The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman
Hiroshima John Hersey
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer
The Black Jacobins C.L.R. James
The Histories Herodotus
The Great Game Peter Hopkirk
Search for Modern China Jonathan Spence
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Dee Brown
A History of the Arab Peoples Albert Hourani
Guns, Germs & Steel Jared Diamond
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Daniel Yergin
A Bright Shining Lie Neil Sheehan
1776 David McCullough
The Civil War: A Narrative Shelby Foote
Battle Cry of Freedom James McPherson
The Scramble for Africa Thomas Pakenham
Nuremberg Diary Gustave Gilbert
We Were Soldiers Once... And Young Harold Moore
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Hard Times Studs Terkel
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides

i have a signed copy of we were soldiers once.......signed by 4 of the major participants.
all of my signed books came from used bookstores.....just open the books and look and you will be surprised...even shocked sometimes.
not a fan but on sat i got karl rove's memoir signed.
the jimmy carter book i got for 50 cent.
i find signed books from all genres.
for example, also on saturday i got a book about the greatest tennis matches of the 20th century that was signed by chris evert.

Very cool. But I wouldn't include the Karl Rove memoir... this list is nonfiction only. You knew that was coming, and thanks for the easy layup! :-)

you got it.......i would put it in the gothic horror category.

Posted by dino27 on 6/3/2019 2:37:00 PM (view original):

Posted by thunder1008 on 6/3/2019 1:52:00 AM (view original):
Great collection, dino27. Here are some of my favorite history books, unfortunately none of them signed. I didn't include biographies.

The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
The Second World War Winston Churchill
A Stillness At Appomattox Bruce Catton
The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman
Hiroshima John Hersey
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer
The Black Jacobins C.L.R. James
The Histories Herodotus
The Great Game Peter Hopkirk
Search for Modern China Jonathan Spence
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Dee Brown
A History of the Arab Peoples Albert Hourani
Guns, Germs & Steel Jared Diamond
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Daniel Yergin
A Bright Shining Lie Neil Sheehan
1776 David McCullough
The Civil War: A Narrative Shelby Foote
Battle Cry of Freedom James McPherson
The Scramble for Africa Thomas Pakenham
Nuremberg Diary Gustave Gilbert
We Were Soldiers Once... And Young Harold Moore
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Hard Times Studs Terkel
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides

i have a signed copy of we were soldiers once.......signed by 4 of the major participants.
all of my signed books came from used bookstores.....just open the books and look and you will be surprised...even shocked sometimes.
not a fan but on sat i got karl rove's memoir signed.
the jimmy carter book i got for 50 cent.
i find signed books from all genres.
for example, also on saturday i got a book about the greatest tennis matches of the 20th century that was signed by chris evert.

good to know

i shall sign all my books from now on

to enhance their value

before i return them to the library