1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner

A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
Geoffrey C. Ward
In this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the bri…
1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Shortlist

Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations
Otto Friedrich

God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War
Bil Gilbert

Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
Roger Morris
