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1989 Awards

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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerNot by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of HistoryJohn Clive...Amazon1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert FrostDavid BromwichAmazonAmerica’s RomeWilliam L. VanceAmazonEnchanted Drawings: The History of AnimationCharles SolomonAmazonMetaphor & Memory: EssaysCynthia OzickAmazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerBilly BathgateE. L. DoctorowI was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom' It's 1930's New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken under the wing of ...Amazon1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistOrdinary Love & Good WillJane SmileyAmazonSpartinaJohn CaseyAmazonThe Joy Luck ClubAmy TanAmazonThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of LoveOscar HijuelosAmazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Broken CordMichael DorrisThe controversial national bestseller that received unprecedented media attention, sparked the nation's interest in the plight of children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and touched a nerve in all of us. Winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award....Amazon1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922David FromkinAmazonAmong SchoolchildrenTracy KidderAmazonFear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle ClassBarbara EhrenreichAmazonThe Rainy Season: Haiti Since DuvalierAmy WilentzAmazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerTransparent GesturesRodney JonesOn receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990 for his third book, Transparent Gestures, Rodney Jones was hailed as "a brand-new world-class poet." This collection of poems, rich in irony, sensuousness, and pleasure, reveals his robust, humoro...Amazon1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistEarthquake WeatherAugust KleinzahlerAmazonHuman WishesRobert HassAmazonPyramid of BoneThylias MossAmazonWater WalkerNancy WillardAmazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1989 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1989 Nebula - Novel WinnerFalling FreeLois McMaster BujoldLeo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: min your own business, fix what's wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could...Amazon1989 Nebula - Novel ShortlistDeserted Cities of the HeartLewis ShinerAmazonDrowning TowersGeorge TurnerAmazonGreat Sky RiverGregory BenfordAmazonMona Lisa OverdriveWilliam GibsonAmazonRed ProphetOrson Scott CardAmazonThe Urth of the New SunGene WolfeAmazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1989 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1989 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil SheehanOutspoken, professional and fearless, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, full of confidence in America's might and right to prevail. He was soon appalled by the South Vietnamese troops' unwillingness to fight, by their random slaughter of civ...Amazon1989 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistComing of Age in the Milky WayTimothy FerrisAmazonThe Last FarmerHoward KohnAmazon
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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1989 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1989 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerBattle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War EraJames M. McPhersonFilled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the...AmazonParting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963Taylor BranchIn 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...Amazon1989 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil Sheeh...
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