National Book Award for Nonfiction 1980

Nominations

Winner	Max Perkins: Editor of Genius	A. Scott Berg
Winner	A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century	Barbara W. Tuchman
Winner	The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt	Edmund Morris
Winner	The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–present	Tim Brooks
Winner	The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations	Christopher Lasch
Winner	Lauren Bacall by Myself	Lauren Bacall
Winner	The Gnostic Gospels	Elaine Pagels
Winner	Julia Child and More Company	Julia Child
Winner	The Snow Leopard	Peter Matthiessen
Winner	The White House Years	Henry A. Kissinger
Winner	Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court	Elder Witt
Winner	A Severe Mercy	Sheldon Vanauken
Winner	And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918–1978	Malcolm Cowley
Winner	The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe
	The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City	Farallones Institute
	Pregnancy and Childbirth: The Complete Guide for a New Life	Tracy Hotchner
	Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater	Calvin Trillin
	America Revised	Frances FitzGerald
	The Powers That Be	David Halberstam
	A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888–1889	Frederic Morton
	The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA	Thomas Powers
	Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life	Sissela Bok
	Of Wolves and Men	Barry Lopez
	Encyclopedia of China Today	Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sopin, and Stephen Andors
	Arts in America: A Bibliography	Bernard Karpel
	Encyclopedia of American Religions	J. Gordon Melton
	Index to Children's Songs	Carolyn Sue Peterson and Ann D. Fenton
	The Ms. Guide to a Woman's Health	Cynthia W. Cooke, M.D., and Susan Dworkin
	The Solar Age Resource Book	Solar Age magazine editors
	I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated History of American Words and Phrases	Stuart Berg Flexner
	Kids: Day In and Day Out: a parents' manual	Elisabeth L. Scharlatt
	Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945	Robert Dallek
	Decline of Bismarck's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875–1890	George F. Kennan
	Utopian Thought in the Western World	Frank E. Manuel
	Munich: The Price of Peace	Telford Taylor
	The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History	James Lincoln Collier
	The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America	Daniel J. Kevles
	Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case	Allen Weinstein
	In Search of History: A Personal Adventure	Theodore H. White
	The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation	Peter L. Berger
	Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture	Brevard S. Childs
	Love Is Stronger Than Death	Peter Kreeft
	The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach	Jack B. Rogers
	Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah	Richard Bach
	American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur	William Manchester
	The Helper	Catherine Marshall
	I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can	Barbara Gordon
	Front and Center	John Houseman
	Obituaries	William Saroyan
	Marquand: An American Life	Millicent Bell
	Bloomsbury: A House of Lions	Leon Edel
	Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur	Ernest Samuels
	Samuel Johnson	W. Jackson Bate
	Robert Kennedy and His Times	Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
	Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People	Barbara Winslow
	Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years from the Experiences of the Sage Program	Gay Gaer Luce
	The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise	Nathan Pritikin
	Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It	Robert Ellis Smith
	Babysense: A Practical and Supportive Guide to Baby Care	Frances Wells Burck