National Book Critics Circle Award

2002 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerA Problem from Hell: America and the Age of GenocideSamantha PowerA 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....Amazon2002 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAmerican Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade CenterWilliam LangewiescheAmazonBrown: The Last Discovery of AmericaRichard RodriguezAmazonEdison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical LifeGaby WoodAmazonWar Is a Force That Gives Us MeaningChris HedgesAmazon

2003 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerSons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its LegacyPaul HendricksonThey stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of ...Amazon2003 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistGulagAnne ApplebaumAmazonRandom Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the BronxAdrian Nicole LeBlancAmazonRising Up and Rising DownWilliam T. VollmannAmazonThe Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the BountyCaroline AlexanderAmazon