National Book Critics Circle Award

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