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No Prize
May 26, 2010
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The Goal Was Greatness
May 24, 2010
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The Wise Man
April 14, 2010
Daphne Merkin
Lovers, Not Victims
April 2, 2010
Judith Shulevitz
Roots and Branches
February 2, 2010
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
In and Out of History
January 11, 2010
David A. Bell
Visions
November 20, 2007
Jennifer Homans
Swept Away
March 12, 2001
Rochelle Gurstein
The Importance of Being Earnest.
March 17, 1997
James Wood
The All of the If
“Moby-Dick” is the great dream of mastery over language.
January 6, 1992
Simon Schama
Christopher Columbus Was Both a Crusader and a Villain
But his story is too complicated to only use dichotomies.
January 15, 1983
Alfred Kazin
Parading His Serenading
January 25, 1959
Malcolm Muggeridge
My Fair Gentleman: On Evelyn Waugh
December 1, 1957
Leon Edel
Throttling the Voice of Passion
May 7, 1956
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Poor Richard Nixon
One thing is clear about Vice President Richard Nixon: both those who admire him and those who dislike him agree that he represents something “new” in American life.
October 22, 1945
Richard Hofstadter
Democracy in the Making
December 6, 1939
Max Lerner
Lincoln as War Leader
September 14, 1932
Lionel Trilling
Intellect or Religion?

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