1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
![The Mismeasure of Man](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580979112-3542-image-3.jpg)
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts an…
1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
![Forms of Talk](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581018617-5373-image-3.jpg)
Forms of Talk
Erving Goffman
![National Defense](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580852635-59379-image-3.jpg)
National Defense
James Fallows
![No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
T.J. Jackson Lears
![The Sage of Monticello: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Six](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580963870-2320-image-3.jpg)