National Book Award for Nonfiction 1983

Nominations

Winner	China: Alive in the Bitter Sea	Fox Butterfield
Winner	Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression	Alan Brinkley
Winner	Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller	Judith Thurman
	Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949–1953	Robert J. Donovan
	Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford: The Early Years	Lewis Mumford
	The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age	George F. Kennan
	Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street	David McClintock
	The Fate of the Earth	Jonathan Schell
	Is There No Place on Earth for Me?	Susan Sheehan
	The Germans	Gordon A. Craig
	The Literary Underground of the Old Regime	Robert Darnton
	Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England	John Putnam Demos
	The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000	William H. McNeill
	Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South	Bertram Wyatt-Brown
	Growing Up	Russell Baker
	The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power	Robert A. Caro