National Book Award for Nonfiction

1) Arctic dreams: imagination and desire in a northern landscape

Author

Lopez, Barry Holstun

2) Common ground: a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families

Author

Lukas, J. Anthony

3) Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832

Author

Remini, Robert V

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eBook, Kindle

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Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America's territorial expansion, bringing to life a complex character who has often been seen simply as a rough-hewn country general. Volume Two traces Jackson's senatorial career, his presidential campaigns, and his first administration as President. Volume Three

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"Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina."--

5) The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

Author

Chernow, Ron

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eAudiobook, eBook, Playaway

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The National Book Award–winning history of American finance by the renowned biographer and author of Hamilton: "A tour de force" (New York Times Book Review).
The House of Morgan is a panoramic story of four generations in the powerful Morgan family and their secretive firms that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan's empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London...

6) from beirut to jerusalem updated with a new chapte

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7) A bright shining lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Author

Sheehan, Neil

8) The making of the atomic bomb

Author

Rhodes, Richard

Series

Making of the nuclear age volume 1

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award**

The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.
This sweeping account...

9) How we die: reflections on life's final chapter

Author

Nuland, Sherwin B

10) United States: essays : 1952-1992

Author

Vidal, Gore

11) becoming a man half

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12) Freedom in the making of western culture

Author

Patterson, Orlando

Series

Freedom volume 1

13) Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II

Author

Dower, John W

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize

Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.

Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the

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14) Slaves in the family

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Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors...

15) American sphinx: the character of Thomas Jefferson

Author

Ellis, Joseph J

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his slave, Sally Hemmings; the enemy of government power who exercisdd it audaciously as president;...

16) The haunted land: facing Europe's ghosts after communism

Author

Rosenberg, Tina

17) Master of the senate: the years of Lyndon Johnson.III

Author

Caro, Robert A

Series

Years of Lyndon Johnson volume 3

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The third volume in the author's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson, following The Path to Power and Means of Ascent, describes the future president's career in the U.S. Senate, from breaking the southern control of Capitol Hill to passing the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

18) The noonday demon: an atlas of depression

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Solomon, Andrew

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The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, and available therapies. This book examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy...

19) In the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex

Author

Philbrick, Nathaniel

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From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye—the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.
In 1820,...

20) The Hemingses of Monticello: an American family

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Gordon-Reed, Annette

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Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family, and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.