Friday, November 22

National Book Critics Circle Award

1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

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
1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe One DayDonald Hall...Amazon1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistHarp LakeJohn HollanderAmazonNew and Collected PoemsRichard WilburAmazonOne Thousand Avant-Garde PlaysKenneth KochAmazonSelected Poems, 1938-1988Thomas McGrathAmazon
1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerA First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin RooseveltGeoffrey C. WardIn this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the bri...Amazon1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistGlenn Gould: A Life and VariationsOtto FriedrichAmazonGod Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil WarBil GilbertAmazonRichard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American PoliticianRoger MorrisAmazonThis Boy’s Life: A MemoirTobias WolffAmazon
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
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
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
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
1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerMeans of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert CaroIn Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at ...Amazon1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistA Hole in the WorldRichard RhodesAmazonRighteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. IckesT.H. WatkinsAmazonStrong Drink, Strong LanguageJohn EspeyAmazonThe Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918Patricia O’TooleAmazon
1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerEncounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical PresentArthur DantoProvides a collection of essays on modern art covering such artists as Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Robert Mapplethorpe...Amazon1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistEmily DickinsonCamille PagliaAmazonEssays in DisguiseWilfrid SheedAmazonNotes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989Stanley CrouchAmazonSelected Writings, 1950-1990Irving HoweAmazon
1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerRabbit at RestJohn UpdikeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award In John Updike’s fourth and final novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart....Amazon1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistCollected StoriesWallace StegnerAmazonFamily PicturesSue MillerAmazonMiddle PassageCharles JohnsonAmazonThe Things They CarriedTim O’BrienAmazon