2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Samantha Power
A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America failed to prevent or stop 20th-century campaigns to exterminate Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans….
2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
William Langewiesche
Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Richard Rodriguez
Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
Gaby Wood
