National Book Foundation Announces Nonfiction Longlist
Sep 14, 2016
The National Book Foundation has announced the longlist for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The finalists will be announced on October 13, and the winner at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York on November 16. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 230 submissions, and were selected by judges Cynthia Barnett, Masha Gessen, Greg Grandin, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Ronald Rosbottom.
The titles are:
- Andrew J. Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (Random House / Penguin Random House)
- Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice (Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House)
- Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Penguin Press / Penguin Random House)
- Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (The New Press)
- Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books)
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press)
- Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Crown / Penguin Random House)
- Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press)
- Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon / Penguin Random House)
