National Book Award for Nonfiction 1990

Nominations

Winner	The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance	Ron Chernow
	Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School	Samuel G. Freedman
	Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician	Roger Morris
	Jackson Pollock: An American Saga	Steven Naifeh
	Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1847–1952	T.H. Watkins