Finalist: The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide , by Gary J. Bass (Alfred A. Knopf )
A disquieting exploration of the role played by the American president and his national security advisor in the 1971 Pakistani civil war, a bloodbath that killed hundreds of thousands and created millions of refugees.
Winners
Prize Winner in General Nonfiction in 2014:
Dan Fagin
A book that deftly combines investigative reporting and historical research to probe a New Jersey seashore town's cluster of childhood cancers linked to water and air pollution.
General Nonfiction
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in General Nonfiction in 2014:
Fred Kaplan
An engrossing look at how a tenacious general became the ringleader of efforts to reshape America's military strategy in the post-Cold War age.
The Jury
The Jury
Robert Vare(Chair )
contributing editor and former editor at large
Deborah Chasman
editor, Boston Review
Alex Kotlowitz
journalist and author
Winners in General Nonfiction
Gilbert King
A richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice in the Florida town of Groveland in 1949, involving four black men falsely accused of rape and drawing a civil rights crusader, and eventual Supreme Court justice, into the legal battle.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.
David E. Hoffman
A well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind.
2014 Prize Winners
Donna Tartt
A beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn characters that follows a grieving boy's entanglement with a small famous painting that has eluded destruction, a book that stimulates the mind and touches the heart.
Annie Baker
A thoughtful drama with well-crafted characters that focuses on three employees of a Massachusetts art-house movie theater, rendering lives rarely seen on the stage.
Alan Taylor
A meticulous and insightful account of why runaway slaves in the colonial era were drawn to the British side as potential liberators.
Megan Marshall
A richly researched book that tells the remarkable story of a 19th century author, journalist, critic and pioneering advocate of women's rights who died in a shipwreck.