CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS WINNER:
Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
FINALISTS:
Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa & Douglas Mathews – The Almanac of American Politics
Herbert Block – Herblock’s State of the Union
Lynn Eden – Crisis in Watertown
David Halberstam – The Best and the Brightest
Seymour Hersh – Cover-Up
Stanley Karnow – Mao and China
Richard Sennett & Jonathan Cobb – The Hidden Injuries of Class
Colin M. Turnbull – The Mountain People
Garry Wills – Bare Ruined Choirs
(no specific author) – Attica: The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission on Attica
