National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape AmericaFrances FitzGeraldA history of the Evangelical movement in America traces the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that rendered evangelism a dominant religious force, describing the rise and fall of denominations and how they influenced American agendas....Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our GenesAdam RutherfordAmazonBorder: A Journey to the Edge of EuropeKapka KassabovaAmazonThe Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed RussiaMasha GessenAmazonThe Gulf: The Making of An American SeaJack E. DavisAmazon

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerDirectorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in AfganistanSteve CollLonglisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan an...Amazon2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistGod Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star StateLawrence WrightAmazonThe Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for FailureGreg Lukianoff and Janathan HaidtAmazonThe Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the BorderFrancisco CantuAmazonWe the Corporations:...

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerArctic DreamsBarry LopezIn crystalline prose, Lopez captures the magic of the Arctic: the essential mystery and beauty of a continent that has enchanted man’s imagination and ambition for centuries. ‘The Arctic dreamland seen and described by a writer of rare ......Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist’s Journey Through a Land of Political TurmoilJonathan Evan MaslowAmazonCadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing WaterMarc ReisnerAmazonVoyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the RevolutionBernard BailynAmazonWar Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific WarJohn W. DowerAmazon

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among GhostsMaxine Hong KingstonIn her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its i...Amazon1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistRootsAlex HaleyAmazonSimple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for EqualityRichard KlugerAmazonThe Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish RelationsGeorge DangerfieldAmazonWorld of Our FathersIrving Howe with Kenneth LiboAmazon

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerSamuel JohnsonW. Jackson BateA biographical study of the eighteenth-century lexicographer and critic combines narrative with psychological insights....Amazon1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistComing Into the CountryJohn McPheeAmazonDispatchesMichael HerrAmazonThe Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human IntelligenceCarl SaganAmazonThe Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914David McCulloughAmazon

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerFacts of LifeMaureen HowardIn this extraordinary autobiography -- now a classic of the genre -- one of the literary community's most distinguished voices brings all of her novelistic powers to the facts of her own life. This newly released edition features a new Introduction by Maur...AmazonInventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of IndependenceGarry WillisFrom one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the docu...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14t...

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerMunich: The Price of PeaceTelford Taylor...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAfrican Calliope: A Journey to the SudanEdward HoaglandAmazonGodel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BrainDouglas HofstadterAmazonThe Right StuffTom WolfeAmazonThe White AlbumJoan DidionAmazon

1980 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerWalter Lippman and the American CenturyRonald Steel...Amazon1980 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAlice James: A BiographyJean StrouseAmazonChina MenMaxine Hong KingstonAmazonChristianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the 14th CenturyJohn BoswellAmazonWalt Whitman: A LifeJustin D. KaplanAmazon

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Mismeasure of ManStephen Jay GouldThe 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...Amazon1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistForms of TalkErving GoffmanAmazonNational DefenseJames FallowsAmazonNo Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920T.J. Jackson LearsAmazonThe Sage of Monticello: Jefferson and His Time, Volume SixDumas MaloneAmazon

1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroThe greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The Times Robert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account o...Amazon1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBronx Primitive: Portraits in a ChildhoodKate SimonAmazonStolen LightningDaniel Lawrence O’KeefeAmazonThe Fate of the EarthJonathan SchellAmazonThe Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age,George F. KennanAmazon