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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Nonfiction A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man’s Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance Zev Chafetz
Nonfiction Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot Alan S. Katchen
Nonfiction Jews and Baseball: Volume 1, Entering the American Mainstream, 1871 – 1948 Burton A. Boxerman and Benita W. Boxerman; Martin Abramowitz, fwd.
Nonfiction Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence Alan Dershowitz
Nonfiction The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York Joseph Berger
Nonfiction Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America Stephen Kanfer
Visual Arts Action/Abstraction: Pollack, De Kooning, and American Art, 1950 – 1976 Norman L. Kleeblatt, ed.