Annal:1982 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
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Results of the National Book Critics Circle Award in the year 1982. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Path to Power: Volume 1 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- 1982 NBCC–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.32
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered. In this book, we are…
