1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
Taylor Branch
In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is de…
1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson
Europeans
Jane Kramer
