National Book Award Nonfiction Winners and Finalists 1950-63, 1984-99
2. 
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,584 ratings
3. 
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by:
John W. Dower
4.15 avg rating — 5,020 ratings 4. 
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
by:
Maryanne Vollers
4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings 
6. 
War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
by:
John W. Dower
4.06 avg rating — 1,871 ratings 
14. 
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
by:
Yaffa Eliach
4.54 avg rating — 98 ratings 
16. 
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
by:
Henry Mayer
4.27 avg rating — 203 ratings 17. 
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by:
Joseph J. Ellis
3.94 avg rating — 28,832 ratings 
20. 
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
by:
Thomas Lynch
3.87 avg rating — 3,140 ratings 
23. 
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958
by:
Cary Reich
3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings 24. 
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
by:
Paul Hendrickson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 202 ratings 
26. 
An American Requiem: God, My Father & the War That Came Between Us
by:
James Carroll
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 807 ratings 27. 
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
by:
Tina Rosenberg
4.04 avg rating — 562 ratings 28. 
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
by:
Dennis Covington
3.93 avg rating — 4,445 ratings 
37. 
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
by:
William R. Leach
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 406 ratings 
39. 
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
by:
Richard Slotkin
4.20 avg rating — 291 ratings 
42. 
The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction
by:
Edward L. Ayers
3.89 avg rating — 213 ratings 43. 
44. 
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
by:
Garry Wills
4.16 avg rating — 8,535 ratings 
50. 
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by:
Ron Chernow
3.96 avg rating — 12,217 ratings 51. 
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School 3.87 avg rating — 175 ratings
52. 
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
by:
Roger Morris
4.05 avg rating — 61 ratings 
54. 
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874 - 1952
by:
T.H. Watkins
4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings 
56. 
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
by:
Taylor Branch
4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings 57. 
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
by:
McGeorge Bundy
3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings 
60. 
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder
by:
Jack McLaughlin
4.02 avg rating — 278 ratings 
63. 
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
by:
Eric Foner
4.21 avg rating — 6,120 ratings 64. 
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by:
Neil Sheehan
4.24 avg rating — 12,399 ratings 
67. 
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics
by:
Claudia Koonz
3.95 avg rating — 144 ratings 68. 
New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars 4.67 avg rating — 36 ratings
70. 
The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune
by:
Richard Kluger
4.09 avg rating — 54 ratings 
72. 
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter : With the Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890) 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings
73. 
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by:
J. Anthony Lukas
4.32 avg rating — 2,727 ratings 74. 
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
by:
Daniel J. Kevles
3.82 avg rating — 170 ratings 
76. 
Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845
by:
Robert V. Remini
4.25 avg rating — 177 ratings 
82. 
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
by:
Lewis Mumford
4.10 avg rating — 1,453 ratings 
85. 
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634 4.24 avg rating — 46 ratings
86. 
Soviet-American Relations, Vol. 1: Russia Leaves the War, 1917-1920
by:
George F. Kennan
4.03 avg rating — 62 ratings 
88. 
Measure of Man on Freedom, Human Values, Survival and the Modern Temper 3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
