National Book Award for Nonfiction 1966

Nominations

Winner	A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House	Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Winner	Paris Journal, 1944–1965	Janet Flanner
	Trials of the Word: Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition	R. W. B. Lewis
	The Myth and the Powerhouse	Philip Rahv
	Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning	Lionel Trilling
	History of Modern Criticism: 1750–1950	René Wellek
	The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and Meaning	Irving Brant
	Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 1835–1915: Patrician at Bay	Edward Chase Kirkland
	The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence	Richard B. Morris
	The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966	Robert Shaplen
	The Making of the President, 1964	Theodore H. White
	"The Love of Anxiety" and Other Essays	Charles Frankel
	Coming of Age in America	Edgar Z. Friedenberg
	Science and Ethical Values	Bentley Glass
	A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America, 1945–47	Alice Kimball Smith
	Starting Out in the Thirties	Alfred Kazin