Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIDouglas A. Blackmon
- a precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity.
General Nonfiction finalists
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our AgeArthur Herman
-an authoritative, deeply researched book that achieves an extraordinary balance in weighing two mighty protagonists against each other
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of EuropeWilliam I. Hitchcock
- a heavily documented exploration of the overlooked suffering of noncombatants in the victory over Nazi Germany, written with the dash of a novelist and the authority of a scholar
