National Book Award in Contemporary Affairs.īooks on history and culture followed this first contribution, including America Revised (1979), a history of history textbooks Cities on a Hill A Brilliant Exploration of Visionary Communities Remaking the American Dream (1987), on America's utopian dreams Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000) and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth (2002). That book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize for history, and the U.S. FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, (1972), shaped the ways Americans understood the last years of the war in Vietnam. The first annual Tony Horwitz Prize honoring distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance is awarded to Frances FitzGerald. Her work mixes the keen observations of a journalist with the measured knowledge of a historian.
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