National Book Critics Circle announces finalists
The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its 2008 awards on Saturday.
In biography, they are: Paula J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, and Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson. In nonfiction, the nominees are: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War, Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, and George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776.
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