2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
Simon Schama
If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of …
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
Anne Fessler
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
Patrick Cockburn
