National Book Award for Nonfiction 1989

Nominations

Winner	From Beirut to Jerusalem	Thomas L. Friedman
	Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63	Taylor Branch
	Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years	McGeorge Bundy
	Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends	William Pfaff
	Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution	Marilynne Robinson