National Book Critics Circle Award for General NonfictionCheck all the winners of National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. |
Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
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2012 |
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Andrew Solomon | Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity |
2009 |
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Richard Holmes | The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science |
2008 |
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Dexter Filkins | The Forever War |
2007 |
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Harriet A. Washington | Medical Apartheid |
2006 |
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Simon Schama | Rough Crossings |
2005 |
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Svetlana Alexievich | Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster |
2004 |
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Diarmaid MacCulloch | The Reformation: A History |
2003 |
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Paul Hendrickson | Sons of Mississippi |
2002 |
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Samantha Power | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide |
2001 |
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Nicholson Baker | Double Fold |
2000 |
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Ted Conover | Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing |
1999 |
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Jonathan Weiner | Time, Love, Memory |
1998 |
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Philip Gourevitch | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda |
1997 |
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Anne Fadiman | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
1996 |
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Jonathan Raban | Bad Land: An American Romance |
1995 |
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Jonathan Harr | A Civil Action |
1994 |
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Lynn H. Nicholas | The Rape of Europa |
1993 |
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Alan Lomax | land where the blues began |
1992 |
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Norman Maclean | Young Men and Fire |
1991 |
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Susan Faludi | Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women |
1990 |
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Shelby Steele | The content of our character |
1989 |
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Michael Dorris | Broken Cord |
1988 |
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Taylor Branch | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 |
1987 |
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Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
1986 |
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John W. Dower | War Without Mercy |
1985 |
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J. Anthony Lukas | Common Ground |
1984 |
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Freeman Dyson | Weapons and hope |
1983 |
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Seymour Hersh | The Price of Power |
1982 |
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Robert Caro | The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power |
1982 |
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Stephen Jay Gould | The Mismeasure of Man |
1980 |
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Ronald Steel | Walter Lippmann and the American Century |
1979 |
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Telford Taylor | Munich: The Price of Peace |
1978 |
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Maureen Howard | Facts of life |
1977 |
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Walter Jackson Bate | Samuel Johnson |
1976 |
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Maxine Hong Kingston | The Woman Warrior |
1975 |
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R. W. B. Lewis | Edith Wharton: A Biography |