1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert Caro
In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at …
1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Shortlist

A Hole in the World
Richard Rhodes

Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes
T.H. Watkins

Strong Drink, Strong Language
John Espey
