Award-Winning Readings: National Book Award Nominees: Nonfiction

This year’s nominees of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards in Nonfiction present selected readings.

Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books)
Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books)
Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction (Crown Publishing Group)
Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Penguin Press)
Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady (Alfred A. Knopf)
Andrew J. Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (Random House)