2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner

The Forever War
Dexter Filkins
Provides a firsthand account of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, from the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, offering a study of the people involved from all sides of the confl…
2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist

From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776
George C. Herring

The Dark Side
Jane Mayer

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust
