The Lusitania Anniversary 1917 / Frank H. Simonds -- Vae Victis! and War Has Its Compensations 1918 / Henry Watterson -- Law and the Jungle 1920 / Harvey E. Newbranch -- The Unknown Soldier 1922 / Frank M. O'Brien -- To an Anxious Friend 1923 / William Allen White -- Who Made Coolidge? 1924 / Frank Buxton -- The Plight of the South 1925 / Robert Lathan -- The House of a Hundred Sorrows 1926 / Edward M. Kingsbury -- We Submit 1927 / F. Lauriston Bullard -- Our Tom 1928 / Grover Cleveland Hall -- An Unspeakable Act of Savagery 1929 / Louis Isaac Jaffe -- The Gentleman from Nebraska 1931 / Charles S. Ryckman -- Too Much Government 1933 / Henry J. Haskell -- Where Is Our Money? 1934 / Edwin P. Chase -- Bankrupt 1936 / Felix Morley -- Censorship, You--and Us 1936 / George B. Parker -- The Opposition 1937 / John W. Owens -- Tenancy Problem Is National 1938 / William Wesley Waymack -- My Country 'Tis of Thee ... 1939 / Ronald G. Callvert -- Europe's Emperor 1940 / Bart Howard -- Toward Totalitarianism 1941 / Reuben Maury -- The Urgent Need of Unity 1942 / Geoffrey Parsons -- Statesmanship in the Legion 1943 / Forrest W. Seymour -- How Germany Fooled the World and That Valley Falls Latin Teacher 1944 / Henry J. Haskell -- Relations of Freedoms 1945 / George W. Potter -- Go For Broke 1946 / Hodding Carter -- Apathetic and Pathetic 1947 / William H. Grimes -- We Will Not Be Intimidated 1948 / Virginius Dabney -- Imagine, One Billion! 1949 / John H. Crider -- Church Unity 1949 / Herbert Elliston -- First Things First 1950 / Carl M. Saunders -- Government by Treaty: What We Can Do About It 1951 / William H. Fitzpatrick -- The Low Estate of Public Morals 1952 / Louis LaCoss -- The Quality of Morality 1953 / Vermont C. Royster -- Still Wanted: A New Look--1 1954 / Don Murray -- An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly 1955 / Royce Howes -- If the Russians Want More Meat ... 1956 / Lauren K. Soth -- What a Price for Peace 1957 / Buford Boone -- Reflections in a Hurricane's Eye 1958 / Harry S. Ashmore -- A Church, A School--1959 / Ralph McGill -- The Year Virginia Closed the Schools 1960 / Lenoir Chambers -- The Pastoral Letter 1961 / William J. Dorvillier -- The John Birch Society: An Editorial 1962 / Thomas M. Storke -- Perfectly Capable of Closing Ole Miss 1963 / Ira B. Harkey, Jr. -- Arrest of Bombing Victim Is Grave Disservice 1964 / Hazel Brannon Smith -- Memo to McKinney 1965 / John R. Harrison -- The Containment of Ideas 1966 / Robert Lasch -- Julian Bond Got Used, Too 1967 / Eugene Patterson -- Our "Commitments" Open to Question 1968 / John S. Knight -- An Appeal to Reason 1969 / Paul Greenberg -- Lyndon Johnson's Presidency 1970 / Philip Geyelin -- Do You, Governer Kirk? 1971 / Horance G. Davis, Jr. -- Whitewash 1972 / John Strohmeyer -- Our 213 Million Gift Horse 1973 / Roger B. Linscott -- Mr. Cahill's Colleagues 1974 / F. Gilman Spencer -- Where They Square Off and Washington, the Father or an Infamous Traitor? 1975 / John Daniell Maurice -- Justice Is Blind--and Gagged 1976 / Philip P. Kerby -- Conforte's Influence 1977 / Foster Church -- Conforte Influence in Washoe County Is Shocking 1977 / Norman F. Cardoza -- Reno's Reputation 1977 / Warren L. Lerude -- A Good Decision on Libel 1978 / Meg Greenfield -- Solzhenitsyn at Harvard 1979 / Edwin M. Yoder -- Chappaquiddick and Credibility 1980 / Robert L. Bartley -- The Pornography of Fat 1982 / Jack Rosenthal -- Miami Herald, The Shame of Krome 1983 / Editorial Board -- Moldy Department 1984 / Albert Scardino -- We Must Be Crazy 1985 / Richard Aregood -- Too Far Too Fast on Abortion 1986 / Jack Fuller -- Easter Sunrise on the Border Ends in Trauma 1987 / Jonathan Freedman -- An Orange Going Sour 1988 / Jane Healy -- Election Board Caves In to a Swindle 1989 / Lois Wille -- Bond Issue Is Essential to Protect Chester County's Future and Rampant Development May Doom Chester County's Farm Industry 1990 / Thomas J. Hylton -- The Bubbling Caldron 1991 / Ron Casey -- Nickels and Dimes 1991 / Joey Kennedy -- Handcuffing Money 1991 / Harold Jackson -- A Victim No More 1992 / Maria Henson -- The System Is the Scapegoat 1994 / R. Bruce Dold -- Broken Promises 1995 / Jeffrey Good -- Stopping the Yellowstone Mine 1996 / Robert B. Semple, Jr. -- Holiday Message Tucked Away in Park 1997 / Michael Gartner -- Learning from 'the Fieldston Warblers' 1998 / Bernard L. Stein -- New York Daily News, Give Theater Board the Hook 1999 / Editorial Board -- Legal Loan Sharking 2000 / John C. Bersia -- A Courageous Step 2001 / David Moats -- A Case Against Liberty 2002 / Alex Raksin, Bob Sipchen -- No More Excuses. Go to the Tape 2003 / Cornelia Grumman.

Since Joseph Pulitzer first established a prize for the best editorial in 1917, the award's prestige has grown steadily. Today the Pulitzer is acknowledged as the most distinguished prize in journalism. All 87 years of these prize-winning pieces are collected in this volume.

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