2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America failed to prevent or stop 20th-century campaigns to exterminate Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans….

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center

William Langewiesche

Brown: The Last Discovery of America

Richard Rodriguez

Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life

Gaby Wood

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Chris Hedges