Winning Pulitzers: The Stories Behind Some of the Best News Coverage of Our Time

By Karen Rothmyer

Winning Pulitzers by Karen Rothmyer is a series of fifteen first-person accounts by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists describing the events that led to their award winning stories. The book also chronicles the triumphs and scandals associated with the prizes through their first seventy-five years.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231070284
• ISBN13: 9780231070287
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The Best of the Crop in All Fields

This book covers the years from '40s through the '80s. During the early years, here are some winners: H. B. Swope in 1917 "Inside German Empire"and in 1941 Klan unveiled Alvin Goldstein 1941 Belmont Park expose Wm. Burke Miller in 1924 "Loeb-Leopold Murders in Chicago" Walter Burns in 1925 "Kentucky Cave rescue" and 1931 Old Russia - Stalin Homer Bigart in 1945 "Hiroshima (After the Bomb)" Edwin O. Guthman in 1949 "Un-American Activities" Harrison E. Salisbury in 1954 "Prison Camps in Siberia" David Hallerstam in 1963 Viet Nam and 2nd Pulitzer, Electric Chair Gene Miller in 1976 "Prison Execution" Alfonso Chardy also in 1976 Oliver North, Watergate of the '80s, Iran-Contra in 1986 The $10,000 award went to varied papers and writers in 2008: Washington Post six Pulitzers New York Times 2 Chicago Tribune Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Concord (NH) Monitor Bob Dylan (pop music) Robert Hass (former U. S. poet laureate (poetry) Tracy Lett (drama) Daniel W. Howe (drama) Daniel W. Howe (history) Saul Friedlander (non-fiction "The Years of Extermination") John Matteson (biography: Alcott family) The candid photos were self-explanatory.