National Book Award for Nonfiction 1964

Nominations

Winner	The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community	William H. McNeill
Winner	Man-made America: Chaos or Control?	Christopher Tunnard
Winner	John Keats: The Making of a Poet	Aileen Ward
	The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. II, Fredericksburg to Meridian	Shelby Foote
	Anti-intellectualism in American Life	Richard Hofstadter
	The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective	Seymour Martin Lipset
	Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure	Peter Lyon
	The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera	Bertram D. Wolfe
	The Fire Next Time	James Baldwin
	The Last Horizon	Raymond Fredric Dasmann
	Wasp Farm	Howard Ensign Evans
	Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City	Nathan Glazer
	The Quiet Crisis	Stewart Udall
	John Keats	Walter Jackson Bate
	Apollinaire: Poet among the Painters	Francis Steegmuller