La National Book Foundation a annoncé le 18 septembre la sélection «Non Fiction», troisième de ses sélections (la dernière, celle de la «Fiction», est prévue le 19 septembre) en vue des National Book Awards qui seront décernés le 16 octobre.

Dix essais et documents y figurent: Finding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State de T.D. Allman (Atlantic Monthly Press); Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami de Gretel Ehrlich (Pantheon Books/Random House); The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA de Scott C. Johnson (W.W. Norton & Company); Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin de Jill Lepore (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House); Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields de Wendy Lower (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 de James Oakes (W.W. Norton & Company); The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America de George Packer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 d'Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton & Company); Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington de Terry Teachout (Gotham Books/Penguin Group); Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief de Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House).