The
National Book Awards nonfiction longlist were announced and include Walter
Isaacson of New Orleans, for his book “The Innovators,” and John Lahr, who
wrote about New Orleans’ most famous playwright, “Tennessee Williams: Mad
Pilgrimage of the Flesh.”
The
list includes:
Roz
Chast, Can't We Talk
About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
John
Demos, The Heathen
School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early
Republic (Knopf)
Anand
Gopal, No Good Men
Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan
Eyes (Metropolitan Books)
Nigel
Hamilton, The Mantle of
Command: FDR at War, 1941 - 1942 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Walter
Isaacson, The
Innovators (Simon & Schuster)
John
Lahr, Tennessee
Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (Norton)
Evan
Osnos, Age of
Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Ronald
C. Rosbottom, When Paris
Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
(Little, Brown)
Matthew
Stewart, Nature's God:
The Heretical Origins of the American Republic (Norton)
Edward
O. Wilson, The Meaning
of Human Existence (Norton)
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