National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction Winners by the Year
2000 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
Newjack
by Conover Ted
Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system.When Conover's request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he d… read more
Shop Now1999 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
Time, Love, Memory
by Jonathan Weiner
1998 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch
1997 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family and their interactions with the health care system… read more
Shop Now1996 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
Bad Land
by Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban is the author of Soft City, Arabia, Old Glory, Foreign Land, For Love and Money, Coasting , and Hunting Mr. Heartbreak . He won the W.H. Heinemann Award for Literature in 1982 and the Thomas Cook Award in 1981 and 1991. He has also e… read more
Shop Now1994 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
The Rape Of Europa
by Lynn H Nicholas
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War is the title of a book and a subsequent documentary film. The book, by Lynn Nicholas, explores the Nazi plunder of looted art treasures from occupied c… read more
Shop Now1993 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
The Land Where the Blues Began
by Alan Lomax
Shop Now1992 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
Young Men and Fire
by Norman MacLean
Young Men and Fire is a non-fiction book written by Norman Maclean and edited by his son, John Norman Maclean. It is an account of Norman Maclean's research of the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 and the 13 men who died there. The fire occurred in Mann G… read more
Shop Now1991 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
Backlash
by Susan Faludi
*Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women's Rights* "Opting-out," "security moms," "desperate housewives," "the new baby fever"--the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that … read more
Shop Now1990 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
The Content Of Our Character
by Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele (born January 1, 1946, Chicago) is an American author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, specialising in the study of race relations, multiculturalism and affirmat… read more
Shop Now1989 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
Broken Cord
by Michael Dorris
Shop Now1988 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
Parting the Waters
by Taylor Branch
Shop Now1987 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
The Making Of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a book written by Richard Rhodes, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. The 900-page book is a narrative of the history of the people and ev… read more
Shop Now1985 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
Common Ground
by J Anthony Lukas
Shop Now1984 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
Weapons and Hope
by Freeman Dyson
Shop Now1981 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction
The Mismeasure Of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002). The book is a history and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and econ… read more
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