National Book Award for Nonfiction 1993

Nominations

Winner	United States: Essays 1952–1992	Gore Vidal
	Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture	William Leach
	W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919	David Levering Lewis
	Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America	Richard Slotkin
	Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground	Peter Svenson