Finalist: How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities , by John Cassidy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
A work that probes the complexity of the Great Recession, using solid research and precise documentation to reveal not only a gripping human drama but also a tense clash of ideas.
Winners
Prize Winner in General Nonfiction in 2010:
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.
General Nonfiction
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in General Nonfiction in 2010:
Robert Wright
A sweeping look at the origins and development of religious belief throughout human history.
The Jury
The Jury
David K. Shipler(chair )*
author and former correspondent
James J. Sheehan
professor emeritus of history
Jonathan Weiner*
author and professor, Graduate School of Journalism
Winners in General Nonfiction
Douglas A. Blackmon
A precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity.
2010 Prize Winners
Paul Harding
A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.
Hank Williams
For his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life.
Liaquat Ahamed
A compelling account of how four powerful bankers played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression and ultimately transforming the United States into the world's financial leader.
Rae Armantrout
A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.