2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

David Brion Davis

A conclusion to the historian’s three-volume history of slavery in Western culture covers the influential Haitian revolution, the complex significance of colonization, and the less-recognized importance of freed slaves to abolition….

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer

Thomas Piketty

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free

Hector Tobar

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

Peter Finn and Petra Couvee