OPC member David E. Hoffman of The Washington Post has just won a Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for his book The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy [Doubleday, 2009]. The Pulitzer Prize Board said the book is “a well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil mankind.” Hoffman had a Book Night at the OPC on December 1, 2009.
The International Reporting prize went to Anthony Shadid, formerly of The Washington Post, and now with The New York Times for his reports from Iraq.