1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Susan Faludi

What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes ‘is not their equality’ – which they don’t yet have – but the rising pressure to halt, even worse, women’s quest for that equality….

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe

Dennis Overbye

Praying for Sheetrock

Melissa Fay Greene

Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools

Jonathan Kozol

Which Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back

Thomas Geoghegan