1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
![Facts of Life](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581021464-5608-image-3.jpg)
Facts of Life
Maureen Howard
In this extraordinary autobiography — now a classic of the genre — one of the literary community’s most distinguished voices brings all of her novelistic powers to the facts of her own life. This newly released edition features a new Introduction by Maur…
![Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581049962-7688-image-3.jpg)
Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence
Garry Willis
From one of America’s foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the docu…
1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
![A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580865465-203-image-3.jpg)
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman
![In Search of History: A Personal Adventure](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
Theodore H. White
![Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt
Barrington Moore
![Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580982714-3839-image-3.jpg)
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Sissela Bok
![Max Perkins: Editor of Genius](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580853556-59454-image-3.jpg)
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
A. Scott Berg
![New York Jew](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580852369-59357-image-3.jpg)
New York Jew
Alfred Kazin
![Seeing Through Clothes](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580962307-2191-image-3.jpg)