1980 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

Walter Lippman and the American Century

Ronald Steel

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Alice James: A Biography

Jean Strouse

China Men

Maxine Hong Kingston

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the 14th Century

John Boswell

Walt Whitman: A Life

Justin D. Kaplan