2003 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner

Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
Paul Hendrickson
They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of …
2003 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist

Gulag
Anne Applebaum

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Rising Up and Rising Down
William T. Vollmann
