National Book Award for Nonfiction 1974

Nominations

Winner[d]John Leonard Clive
WinnerLife: The Unfinished ExperimentS. E. Luria
WinnerEdmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite TasksMaurice Natanson
WinnerThe Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.Murray Kempton
WinnerDeeper into MoviesPauline Kael
A Decade of MusicB. H. Haggin
Pentimento: A Book of PortraitsLillian Hellman
Walking the Dead Diamond RiverEdward Hoagland
Elie NadelmanLincoln Kirstein
Explaining Music: Essays and ExplorationsLeonard B. Meyer
The InspectorSaul Steinberg
Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915Kevin Starr
Malcolm Lowry: A BiographyDouglas Day
Sir Harry Vane: His Life and TimesJ. H. Adamson
Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of SolitudeRobert V. Bruce
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888–1938Stephen F. Cohen
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Prophetic Voice, Vol. IILester G. Crocker
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis JoplinMyra Friedman
Lawyer's Lawyer: The Life of John W. DavisWilliam H. Harbaugh
The Devil and John Foster DullesTownsend Hoopes
O'Neill Volume II: Son and ArtistLouis Sheaffer
Catherine BeecherKathryn Kish Sklar
StalinAdam Ulam
Generative Man: Psychoanalytic PerspectivesDon Browning
The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People's ReligionHarvey Cox
The Anatomy of Human DestructivenessErich Fromm
Jean-Paul SartreMarjorie Grene
The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical TheoryTrent Schroyer
The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter-Cultures in AmericaLaurence Veysey
History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's ThoughtFrederic Wakeman
Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 1Harry Austryn Wolfson
Puritanism in America: New Culture in a New WorldLarzer Ziff
EinsteinJeremy Bernstein
Genetic Diversity and Human EqualityTheodosius Dobzhansky
Genetic Fix: The Next Technological RevolutionAmitai Etzioni
Are Quanta Real?: A Galilean DialogueJ. M. Jauch
Desert: The American SouthwestRuth Kirk and Louis Kirk
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Vol. IISuzanne K. Langer
Autumn of the EagleGeorge Laycock
Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society IslandsRobert I. Levy
Behavior: The Control of PerceptionWilliam T. Powers
Deaths of ManEdwin S. Shneidman
The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American ConsciencePeter Davies
Economics and the Public PurposeJohn Kenneth Galbraith
In Search of Ali Mahmoud: An American Woman in EgyptVivian Gornick
Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in AmericaWalter Karp
Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor ExecutionersRobert Jay Lifton
Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison BusinessJessica Mitford
Sixties Going on SeventiesNora Sayre
The Imperial PresidencyArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Saturday Night Special and Other GunsRobert Sherrill
The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil WarDaniel Aaron
Forewords and AfterwordsW. H. Auden
MandelstamClarence Brown
Golden Codgers: Biographical SpeculationsRichard Ellmann