National Book Award for Nonfiction 1988

Nominations

Winner	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam	Neil Sheehan
	Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877	Eric Foner
	Freud: A Life for Our Time	Peter Gay
	Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom	Brenda Maddox
	Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder	Jack McLaughlin