1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner

The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-82
Gore Vidal
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1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist

Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism
Harold Bloom

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
Marshall Berman

Going to the Dance
Arlene Croce
