National Book Award for Nonfiction 1982

Nominations

Winner	People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830–1879	Peter J. Powell
Winner	The Soul of a New Machine	Tracy Kidder
Winner	Mornings on Horseback	David McCullough
	Grant: A Biography	William S. McFeely
	The Beechers	Milton Rugoff
	The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays	Guy Davenport
	National Defense	James Fallows
	Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession	Janet Malcolm
	Russian Journal	Andrea Lee
	1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline	Ray Huang
	Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East	Donald Neff
	Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944–1945	Russell F. Weigley
	Mary Chestnut's Civil War	C. Vann Woodward
	Waldo Emerson: A Biography	Gay Wilson Allen
	Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello	Dumas Malone