2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

The Forever War

Dexter Filkins

Provides a firsthand account of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, from the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, offering a study of the people involved from all sides of the confl…

From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776

George C. Herring

The Dark Side

Jane Mayer

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

White Protestant Nation

Allan Lichtman