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Praise and Prize for Applebaum

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

Agitator.com favorite Anne Applebaum won a 2004 Pulitzer Prize yesterday for her book Gulag.

A well-deserved award, and one that at least makes some amends for the prize committee’s refusal last yearl to revoke Walter Duranty’s award.

Applebaum’s book documents Stalin’s prison camps. Duranty’s award came from dispatches he sent back from the Soviet Union praising the dictator, even when faced with evidence of the man’s prison camps, work camps, forced famines, and purges.

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One Response to “Praise and Prize for Applebaum”

  1. #1 |  MattG |  April 6th, 2004 at 12:19 pm

    It’s an important, well-written, painstakingly-researched book. Anne Applebaum deserved the Pulitzer many times over.

    I wish I hadn’t sold my copy on eBay now.