National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White HouseSeymour M. HershPrice of Power examines Henry Kissinger’s influence on the development of the foreign policy of the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon....Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistChildren of WarRoger RosenblattAmazonDistant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic FishermanWilliam W. WarnerAmazonPresent History: On Nuclear War, Detente and Other ControversiesTheodore DraperAmazonRevolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern WorldDavid S. LandesAmazon

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerWeapons and HopeFreeman Dyson...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBrothers and KeepersJohn Edgar WidemanAmazonSon of the Morning StarEvan S. ConnellAmazonThe Abandonment of the JewsDavid WymanAmazonThe Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural HistoryRobert DarntonAmazon

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerCommon Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesJ. Anthony LukasWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of...Amazon1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistDistant Neighbors: The Portrait of the MexicansAlan RidingAmazonHouseTracy KidderAmazonThe Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the WorldElaine ScarryAmazonThe Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient AthensEva KeulsAmazon

1975 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerEdith Wharton: A BiographyR.W.B. Lewis...Amazon

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

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerParting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63Taylor 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...Amazon1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil SheehanAmazonBattle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War EraJames M. McPhersonAmazonEuropeansJane KramerAmazonReconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877Eric FonerAmazon

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

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in AmericaShelby SteeleIn this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between black and whites. With candor and persuasive argument, ...Amazon1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistCity of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los AngelesMike DavisAmazonDisappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the 20th CenturyO.B. HardisonAmazonSambaAlma GuillermoprietoAmazonThe Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan AftermathKevin PhillipsAmazon

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerBacklash: The Undeclared War Against American WomenSusan FaludiWhat 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....Amazon1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistLonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the UniverseDennis OverbyeAmazonPraying for SheetrockMelissa Fay GreeneAmazonSavage Inequalities: Children in America’s SchoolsJonathan KozolAmazonWhich Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its BackThomas GeogheganAmazon

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerYoung Men and FireNorman MacleanOn August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were...Amazon1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBreaking the Maya CodeMichael D. CoeAmazonDeath Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in BrazilNancy Scheper-HughesAmazonHome Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar AmericaDonald KatzAmazonThe Diversity of LifeEdward O. WilsonAmazon