National Book Award for Nonfiction 1983

Nominations

WinnerNational DefenseJames Fallows
WinnerUtopian Thought in the Western WorldFrank E. Manuel
WinnerChina: Alive in the Bitter SeaFox Butterfield
WinnerVoices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great DepressionAlan Brinkley
WinnerIsak Dinesen: The Life of a StorytellerJudith Thurman
WinnerNathaniel Hawthorne in His TimesJames R. Mellow
Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford: The Early YearsLewis Mumford
William Carlos Williams: A New World NakedPaul Mariani
Alice James: A BiographyJean Strouse
The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic AgeGeorge F. Kennan
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall StreetDavid McClintock
The Fate of the EarthJonathan Schell
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?Susan Sheehan
Joe McCarthy and the PressEdwin R. Bayley
Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the WarsPaul Fussell
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam WarAl Santoli
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas FrontierJoanna Stratton
1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in DeclineRay Huang
The GermansGordon A. Craig
The Literary Underground of the Old RegimeRobert Darnton
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New EnglandJohn Putnam Demos
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000William H. McNeill
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old SouthBertram Wyatt-Brown
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African HistoryGeorge M. Fredrickson
The MapmakersJohn Noble Wilford
Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of MonticelloDumas Malone
Grant: A BiographyWilliam S. McFeely
Growing UpRussell Baker
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to PowerRobert A. Caro
Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949–1953Robert J. Donovan