1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts an…
1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
Forms of Talk
Erving Goffman
National Defense
James Fallows
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
T.J. Jackson Lears
