National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalistGeneral Nonfiction

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Andere Namen: John Leonard Award (Engels), National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Engels)
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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating toon meer with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Finalists toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (276), Finalist (1,264)
Categorieën:
Alle, General Nonfiction (170)
Jaren:
Alle, 2014 (5), 2008 (4), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (5), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (5), 1999 (5), 1998 (5), 1997 (5), 1996 (5), 1995 (5), 1994 (5), 1993 (5), 1992 (4), 1991 (5), 1990 (5), 1989 (5), 1988 (5), 1987 (5), 1986 (5), 1985 (5), 1984 (5), 1983 (5), 1982 (5), 1981 (6), 1980 (5), 1979 (5), 1978 (10), 1977 (5), 1976 (5), 1975 (1)
Aangekondigd:
maart 21: Winnaar2023 Recent
januari 25: Finalist2023 Recent

Finalist 170

WerkJaar
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation door David Brion Davis2014
Capital in the 21st Century door Thomas Piketty2014
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book door Peter Finn2014
Het zesde uitsterven hoe de mens even catastrofaal is als de asteroïde die de dinosauriërs wegveegde door Elizabeth Kolbert2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free door Héctor Tobar2014
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) door Drew Gilpin Faust2008
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 door George C. Herring2008
White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement door Allan J. Lichtman2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals door Jane Mayer2008
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution door Simon Schama2006
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq door Patrick Cockburn2006
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade door Ann Fessler2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals door Michael Pollan2006
De citroenboom door Sandy Tolan2006
Wij houden van Tsjernobyl: Een kroniek van de toekomst door Svetlana Alexievich2005
De grote beschavingsoorlog door Robert Fisk2005
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild door Ellen Meloy2005
Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees door Caroline Moorehead2005
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War door Anthony Shadid2005
Reformatie het Europese huis gedeeld 1490-1700 door Diarmaid MacCulloch2004
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age door Kevin Boyle2004
Blue Blood door Edward Conlon2004
The Working Poor: Invisible in America door David K. Shipler2004
Blood Done Sign My Name door Timothy B. Tyson2004
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy door Paul Hendrickson2003
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty door Caroline Alexander2003
Goelag Een geschiedenis door Anne Applebaum2003
Zomaar familie - Liefde, drugs en volwassen worden in de Bronx door Adrian Nicole LeBlanc2003
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} door William T. Vollmann2003
Een probleem uit de hel Amerika, het Westen en het tijdperk van de genocide door Samantha Power2002
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning door Chris Hedges2002
American Ground door William Langewiesche2002
Brown: The Last Discovery of America door Richard Rodriguez2002
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life door Gaby Wood2002
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper door Nicholson Baker2001
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care door Nina Bernstein2001
Buren de vernietiging van de joodse gemeenschap in Jedwabne door Jan T. Gross2001
Seabiscuit: An American Legend door Laura Hillenbrand2001
The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case door Sam Roberts2001
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing door Ted Conover2000
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 door Fred Anderson2000
Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War door Frances FitzGerald2000
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health door Laurie Garrett2000
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach door Alice Kaplan2000
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior door Jonathan Weiner1999
Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History door Jane Brox1999
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II door John W. Dower1999
I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory door Patricia Hampl1999
De donkere kamer van Longwood reis naar Sint-Helena door Jean-Paul Kauffmann1999
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda door Philip Gourevitch1998
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America door Ira Berlin1998
De geest van Koning Leopold II en de plundering van de Congo door Adam Hochschild1998
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present door Roy Porter1998
De gekwelde woordenaar door Simon Winchester1998
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down door Anne Fadiman1997
De ijle lucht in het verslag van een huiveringwekkende Mount Everest-expeditie door Jon Krakauer1997
The Bible as it was door James L. Kugel1997
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence door Pauline Maier1997
Hoe de menselijke geest werkt door Steven Pinker1997
Leeg land een Amerikaanse liefdesgeschiedenis door Jonathan Raban1996
Terug naar de klassieken door David Denby1996
Hitlers gewillige beulen door Daniel Goldhagen1996
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris door Richard Kluger1996
Het Midden Oosten : 2000 jaar culturele en politieke geschiedenis door Bernard Lewis1996
A Civil Action door Jonathan Harr1995
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books door Nicholas A. Basbanes1995
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle door Madeleine Blais1995
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence door Fox Butterfield1995
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology door Lawrence Weschler1995
The Rape of Europa : The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War door Lynn H. Nicholas1994
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America door John Putnam Demos1994
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas door Jane Mayer1994
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter door Sherwin B. Nuland1994
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story door Abraham Verghese1994
The Land where the Blues began door Alan Lomax1993
Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age door Rosemary Mahoney1993
Lenins laatste adem de ondergang van het Sovjetrijk door David Remnick1993
Genie een mishandeld kind ontvlucht de stilte door Russ Rymer1993
The Last Panda door George B. Schaller1993
Young Men and Fire door Norman Maclean1992
Breaking the Maya Code door Michael D. Coe1992
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America door Donald R. Katz1992
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil door Nancy Scheper-Hughes1992
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women door Susan Faludi1991
Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back door Thomas Geoghegan1991
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction door Melissa Fay Greene1991
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools door Jonathan Kozol1991
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe door Dennis Overbye1991
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America door Shelby Steele1990
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles door Mike Davis1990
Samba door Alma Guillermoprieto1990
Reis door de moderne tijd door Jr. O. B. Hardison1990
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath door Kevin P. Phillips1990
The Broken Cord door Michael Dorris1989
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class door Barbara Ehrenreich1989
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East door David Fromkin1989
Onder schoolkinderen door Tracy Kidder1989
De regentijd : Haïti sinds Duvalier door Amy Wilentz1989
De geschiedenis van een droom Amerika onder Martin Luther King en de Kennedy's door Taylor Branch1988
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 door Eric Foner1988
Europeans door Jane Kramer1988
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era door James M. McPherson1988
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam door Neil Sheehan1988
The Making of the Atomic Bomb door Richard Rhodes1987
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time door Stephen Jay Gould1987
The Genius of the People door Charles L. Mee1987
Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, With a New Preface by the Author door Jim Miller1987
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic door Randy Shilts1987
De geheimzinnige Noordpool door Barry Lopez1986
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution door Bernard Bailyn1986
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War door John W. Dower1986
Bird of Life, Bird of Death door Jonathan Evan Maslow1986
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water door Marc Reisner1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families door J. Anthony Lukas1985
The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens door Eva C. Keuls1985
House door Tracy Kidder1985
Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans door Alan Riding1985
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World door Elaine Scarry1985
Weapons and Hope door Freeman Dyson1984
Son of the Morning Star door Evan S. Connell1984
De grote kattenslachting door Robert Darnton1984
Brothers and Keepers door John Edgar Wideman1984
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 door David S. Wyman1984
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House door Seymour M. Hersh1983
Present History door Theodore Draper1983
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World door David S. Landes1983
Children of War door Roger Rosenblatt1983
Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman door William W. Warner1983
The Path to Power door Robert A. Caro1982
Nuclear Delusion door George F. Kennan1982
Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic door Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe1982
The Fate of the Earth door Jonathan Schell1982
Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood door Kate Simon1982
De mens gemeten door Stephen Jay Gould1981
The Mismeasure of Man [Revised & Expanded] door Stephen Jay Gould1981
National Defense door James Fallows1981
Forms of Talk (University of Pennsylvania Publications in Conduct & Communication) door Erving Goffman1981
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 door Jackson Lears1981
The Sage of Monticello door Dumas Malone1981
Walter Lippmann and the American Century door Ronald Steel1980
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality door John Boswell1980
Walt Whitman: A Life door Justin Kaplan1980
Mannen uit China door Maxine Hong Kingston1980
Alice James: A Biography door Jean Strouse1980
Munich: The Price of Peace door Telford Taylor1979
The White Album door Joan Didion1979
African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan door Edward Hoagland1979
Gödel, Escher, Bach: een eeuwige gouden band door Douglas Hofstadter1979
Pure klasse door Tom Wolfe1979
The Facts of Life door Maureen Howard1978
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence door Garry Wills1978
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius door A. Scott Berg1978
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life door Sissela Bok1978
Seeing through Clothes door Anne Hollander1978
New York Jew door Alfred Kazin1978
De sneeuwluipaard door Peter Matthiessen1978
Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt door Barrington Moore1978
De waanzinnige veertiende eeuw door Barbara W. Tuchman1978
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure door Theodore H. White1978
Samuel Johnson door W. Jackson Bate1977
Verslagen uit Vietnam door Michael Herr1977
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 door David McCullough1977
Coming into the Country door John McPhee1977
Draken uit het paradijs door Carl Sagan1977
De krijgsheldin : herinneringen van een vrouw die opgroeide tussen geesten door Maxine Hong Kingston1976
Damnable Question: A Study of Anglo-Irish Relations door George Dangerfield1976
Roots : wij, zwarten door Alex Haley1976
World of Our Fathers door Irving Howe1976
Simple Justice door Richard Kluger1976
Edith Wharton: A Biography door R. W. B. Lewis1975

Beschrijvingen

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

Finalists
(English, Door lid geschreven)
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

Winners
(English, Door lid geschreven)

Trefwoorden

20th century(1,272) adventure(881) Africa(1,130) American(736) American history(2,577) anthropology(672) biography(4,219) biology(757) books(637) books about books(758) Civil War(1,305) economics(701) environment(674) essays(813) European History(657) Everest(642) evolution(760) feminism(673) fiction(1,598) food(1,800) genocide(636) history(18,789) Holocaust(661) journalism(875) language(748) literature(639) math(1,413) medicine(781) memoir(2,126) Middle East(1,022) military history(656) mountaineering(700) nature(724) non-fiction(20,247) own(962) philosophy(2,040) politics(2,204) psychology(1,081) read(1,984) religion(660) science(4,266) slavery(792) sociology(1,150) to-read(12,874) travel(977) unread(1,292) usa(1,600) Vietnam(640) war(1,305) wwii(1,226)

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