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September 14, 2017By Michael Cader

Next, the Nonfiction Longlist

September 14, 2017By Michael Cader

Today the National Book Awards released the nonfiction longlist, with judges Steve Bercu, Jeff Chang, Ruth Franklin, Paula J. Giddings, and Valeria Luiselli selecting politically-skewed reading:

Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave,
Ona Judge (37 Ink)
Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Simon & Schuster)
James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus)
Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Riverhead)
David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday)
Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Haymarket Books)
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (Viking)
Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Liveright)
Timothy B. Tyson, The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon & Schuster)
Kevin Young, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Graywolf Press)

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