National Book Award for Nonfiction 1980

Nominations

Winner	The Gnostic Gospels	Elaine Pagels
Winner	Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court	Elder Witt
Winner	The White House Years	Henry A. Kissinger
Winner	The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe
Winner	Lauren Bacall by Myself	Lauren Bacall
	Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years from the Experiences of the Sage Program	Gay Gaer Luce
	The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise	Nathan Pritikin
	Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It	Robert Ellis Smith
	America Revised	Frances FitzGerald
	The Powers That Be	David Halberstam
	A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888–1889	Frederic Morton
	The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA	Thomas Powers
	Encyclopedia of China Today	Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sopin, and Stephen Andors
	Arts in America: A Bibliography	Bernard Karpel
	Encyclopedia of American Religions	J. Gordon Melton
	Index to Children's Songs	Carolyn Sue Peterson and Ann D. Fenton
	Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945	Robert Dallek
	Decline of Bismarck's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875–1890	George F. Kennan
	Utopian Thought in the Western World	Frank E. Manuel
	Munich: The Price of Peace	Telford Taylor
	The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation	Peter L. Berger
	Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture	Brevard S. Childs
	Love Is Stronger Than Death	Peter Kreeft
	The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach	Jack B. Rogers
	I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can	Barbara Gordon
	Front and Center	John Houseman
	Obituaries	William Saroyan
	Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People	Barbara Winslow