• 1962 Theodore H. White - The Making of the President 1960
  • 1963 Barbara W. Tuchman - The Guns of August
  • 1964 Richard Hofstadter - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
  • 1965 Howard Mumford Jones - O Strange New World
  • 1966 Edwin Way Teale - Wandering Through Winter
  • 1967 David Brion Davis - The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
  • 1968 Will And Ariel Durant - Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization
  • 1969 Norman Mailer - The Armies Of The Night
  • 1969 Rene Jules Dubos - So Human An Animal
  • 1970 Erik H. Erikson - Gandhi's Truth
  • 1971 John Toland - The Rising Sun
  • 1972 Barbara W. Tuchman - Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
  • 1973 Robert Coles - Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III
  • 1973 Frances Fitzgerald - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
  • 1974 the late Ernest Becker - The Denial of Death
  • 1975 Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
  • 1976 Robert N. Butler - Why Survive? Being Old In America
  • 1977 William W. Warner - Beautiful Swimmers
  • 1978 Carl Sagan - The Dragons of Eden
  • 1979 Edward O. Wilson - On Human Nature
  • 1980 Douglas R. Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
  • 1981 Carl E. Schorske - Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture
  • 1982 Tracy Kidder - The Soul of A New Machine
  • 1983 Susan Sheehan - Is There No Place On Earth For Me?
  • 1984 Paul Starr - The Social Transformation Of American Medicine
  • 1985 Studs Terkel - The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
  • 1986 Joseph Lelyveld - Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
  • 1986 J. Anthony Lukas - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
  • 1987 David K. Shipler - Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
  • 1988 Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  • 1989 Neil Sheehan - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
  • 1990 Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson - And Their Children After Them
  • 1991 Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson - The Ants
  • 1992 Daniel Yergin - The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power
  • 1993 Garry Wills - Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
  • 1994 David Remnick - Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire
  • 1995 Jonathan Weiner - The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time
  • 1996 Tina Rosenberg - The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
  • 1997 Richard Kluger - Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris
  • 1998 Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  • 1999 John McPhee - Annals of the Former World
  • 2000 John W. Dower - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
  • 2001 Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
  • 2002 Diane McWhorter - Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution