National Book Award for Nonfiction 2000

Nominations

Winner	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex	Nathaniel Philbrick
	From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present	Jacques Barzun
	The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach	Alice Kaplan
	W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963	David Levering Lewis
	Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon	Patrick Tierney