Books by T.J. Styles
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
by T.J. Styles
🏆 Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
🏆 Winner of a 2009 National Book Award
In one of the greatest rags-to-riches tales of all time, biographer T.J. Styles offers an overview of the making of the great American capitalist Cornelius Vanderbilt—from humble birth to the birth of the modern corporation—and in so doing tells the wider story of U.S. economic history. Styles, observed The New York Times Book Review, "offers a fruitful way to think about the larger history of American elites as well as the life of one of their most famous members.”
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
by T.J. Styles
🏆 Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History
An accomplished biography of the US military commander George Armstrong Custer, who rose to fame as a Union general during the American Civil War before his infamous death at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
Interviews where books by T.J. Styles were recommended
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
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No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
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Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
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Cuba: An American History
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
by Nicole Eustace
Pulitzer Prize-Winning History Books
Pulitzer Prize-Winning History Books
Every year, the Pulitzer Prize jury awards $15,000 to a “distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States.” We’ve compiled a guide to the winning books since the turn of the millennium.
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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King: A Life
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is awarded annually to “a distinguished and appropriately documented” biography by an author from or based in the United States. The authors of winning books receive $15,000, and join a starry pantheon of great American writers. Here, we’ve put together a summary of all the Pulitzer-winning biographies since the turn of the millennium.
