1987 Awards

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Making of the Atomic BombRichard RhodeTwenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan...Amazon1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAnd the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS EpidemicRandy ShiltsAmazonDemocracy Is in the Streets,James MillerAmazonGenius of the PeopleCharles MeeAmazonTime’s Arrow, Time’s CycleStephen Jay GouldAmazon