National Book Award for Nonfiction 2008

Nominations

Winner	The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family	Annette Gordon-Reed
	This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War	Drew Gilpin Faust
	The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals	Jane Mayer
	Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives	Jim Sheeler
	The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order	Joan Wickersham