National Book Award Collection: NonFiction - 2017

The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America.

List:
• Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
• Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
• James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
• Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
• David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
• Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
• Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
• Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
• Timothy B. Tyson, The Blood of Emmett Till
• Kevin Young, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

WINNER:
Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia