Annal:1982 National Book Award for Biography
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Results of the National Book Award in the year 1982. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- National Book Award for Biography
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Biography books
- Biography authors.
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
- 1982 NBA–Biography winner
- 1980 LATimes–History winner
- Score: 20.32
The journalist Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was a magisterial figure who relished his role as an insider, an adviser to presidents, a shaper and sometime purveyor of government policy. Drawing on conversations with Lippmann and exclusive access to his private papers, Ronald Steel documents the broad flow of Lippmann’s career from his brilliant Harvard days and his role in helping formulate Wilson’s Fourteen Points in World War I to his bitter break with Lyndon Johnson over Vietnam. Written with clarity and objectivity, this definitive biography presents a…
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life…Theodore Roosevelt
- 1982 NBA–Biography winner
- 1981 LATimes–Biography winner
- Score: 20.32
Written by David McCullough, the author of Truman, this is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and almost fatal asthma attacks, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household in which he was raised.
The father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. The mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and a celebrated beauty, but also considerably more,…
