National Book Award for Nonfiction 1978

Nominations

Winner	Winners and Losers	Gloria Emerson
Winner	The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870–1914	David McCullough
Winner	Samuel Johnson	Walter Jackson Bate
	A Dual Autobiography	Will Durant
	Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing	Frank Vandiver
	The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized	Henry Steele Commager
	Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–48	Robert J. Donovan
	A Species of Eternity	Joseph Kastner
	Gold and Iron	Fritz Stern
	Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood	Kai T. Erikson
	The Vast Majority	Michael Harrington
	Pink Collar Workers	Louise Kapp Howe
	The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind	Julian Jaynes
	Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet	James Atlas
	Brother to a Dragonfly	Will D. Campbell