National Book Award for Nonfiction 1969

Nominations

Winner	Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima	Robert Jay Lifton
Winner	White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812	Winthrop Jordan
Winner	The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History	Norman Mailer
	George Eliot: A Biography	Gordon S. Haight
	Victorian Minds	Gertrude Himmelfarb
	Lawrence and Oppenheimer	Nuel Pharr Davis
	The Indian Heritage of America	Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
	Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republic and Democratic Conventions of 1968	Norman Mailer
	The South and the Sectional Conflict	David M. Potter
	So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events	René Dubos
	A Portrait of Isaac Newton	Frank E. Manuel
	The Crime of Punishment	Karl Menninger
	The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA	James D. Watson
	Men in Dark Times	Hannah Arendt
	Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider	Peter Gay