| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| George F. Kennan |
Russia Leaves the War
|
| Samuel Flagg Bemis |
John Quincy Adams and the Union
|
| James MacGregor Burns |
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox
|
| Bruce Catton |
This Hallowed Ground
|
| William Chambers |
Old Bullion Benton
|
| Stuart Chase |
Guides to Straight Thinking
|
| Arthur Compton |
The Atomic Quest
|
| Frank Burt Freidel |
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph
|
| Eric F. Goldman |
The Crucial Decade, America 1945-55
|
| Kathryn Hulme |
The Nun's Story
|
| Paul Murray Kendall |
Richard the Third
|
| John F. Kennedy |
Profiles in Courage
|
| Samuel Lubell |
The Revolt of the Moderates
|
| Perry Miller |
The Raven and the Whale
|
| Lewis Mumford |
The Transformations of Man
|
| Edwin Way Teale |
Autumn Across America
|
| Robert Penn Warren |
Segregation, the Inner Conflict in the South
|
| William H. Whyte |
The Organization Man
|
