2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis
A conclusion to the historian’s three-volume history of slavery in Western culture covers the influential Haitian revolution, the complex significance of colonization, and the less-recognized importance of freed slaves to abolition….
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
Thomas Piketty
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free
Hector Tobar
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
