National Book Award for Nonfiction 1980

Nominations

WinnerLauren Bacall by MyselfLauren Bacall
WinnerThe Right StuffTom Wolfe
WinnerCongressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme CourtElder Witt
WinnerThe White House YearsHenry A. Kissinger
WinnerThe Gnostic GospelsElaine Pagels
WinnerJulia Child and More CompanyJulia Child
The Pritikin Program for Diet and ExerciseNathan Pritikin
Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of ItRobert Ellis Smith
The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious AffirmationPeter L. Berger
America RevisedFrances FitzGerald
The Powers That BeDavid Halberstam
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888–1889Frederic Morton
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIAThomas Powers
Introduction to the Old Testament as ScriptureBrevard S. Childs
Encyclopedia of China TodayFrederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sopin, and Stephen Andors
Arts in America: A BibliographyBernard Karpel
Encyclopedia of American ReligionsJ. Gordon Melton
Index to Children's SongsCarolyn Sue Peterson and Ann D. Fenton
Love Is Stronger Than DeathPeter Kreeft
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945Robert Dallek
Decline of Bismarck's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875–1890George F. Kennan
Utopian Thought in the Western WorldFrank E. Manuel
Munich: The Price of PeaceTelford Taylor
The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical ApproachJack B. Rogers
I'm Dancing As Fast As I CanBarbara Gordon
Front and CenterJohn Houseman
ObituariesWilliam Saroyan
Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled PeopleBarbara Winslow
Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years from the Experiences of the Sage ProgramGay Gaer Luce