Book news: On war, then and now
By Dave
October 16th, 2008 | Leave a comment
America at war was the dominant theme for nonfiction nominees of this year’s National Book Awards, announced Wednesday.
The nominees are The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, by Jane Mayer, a writer for The New Yorker; This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust; Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed, about Thomas Jefferson’s slave family; Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives, by Jim Sheeler; and The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order, by Joan Wickersham.
Other recent war-flavored books that have been critically well-regarded were not nominated, including The Forever War by New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins.
The winners are to be announced Nov. 19.
To read more about the nominations, CLICK HERE (subscription may be required).
See the NYT slide show fro “Final Salute: CLICK HERE.
