2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

The Winner and Nominees for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction book award.

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner

Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

Simon Schama

If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of …

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
Anne Fessler
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
Patrick Cockburn
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
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