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Sunday Book Review: October 1, 2023 – The National Book Award, Part 2 Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, Tom continues his summer exploration of books on crime. Today, he looks at the remaining five of the top ten books longlisted for the National Book Award in non-fiction.

  1. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
  2. King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
  3. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  4. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer
  5. When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey
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Sunday Book Review

Sunday Book Review: September 24, 2023 – The National Book Award, Part 1 Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive or anyone who might be curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, I continue my summer exploration of books on crime. Today, look at five of the top ten books longlisted for the National Book Award in non-fiction.

Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe 

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh 

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams