National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction 2018

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Hardback

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Adam Winkler

Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American…

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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Jeffrey C. Stewart

The definitive biography of Alain Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Harvard PhD in philosophy, Howard University philosophy scholar, and architect of the Harlem Renaissance, who mentored a…

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Call Them by Their True Names

Rebecca Solnit

An essential new collection of essays from the bestselling phenomenon Rebecca Solnit calling for reflection and context, activism and hope.  

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Heartland

Sarah Smarsh

An eye-opening, topical, and moving memoir of one woman’s experience of working-class poverty in America.

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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

Victoria Johnson

The untold story of Hamilton’s-and Burr’s-physician whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic.

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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War

Marwan Hisham,Molly Crabapple

In 2011, Marwan Hisham and his two friends - fellow working-class college students - Nael and Tareq, joined the first protests of the Arab Spring in Syria, in response to…

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The Indian World of George Washington

Colin G. Calloway

A biography of America’s founding father and those on whose land he based the nation’s future

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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Carol Anderson

Chronicles the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby ruling, which allowed districts to change voting requirments without approval from the Department of…

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