List of winners of the National Book Award
Contemporary Affairs

List of winners of the National Book Award

Section Title: Contemporary Affairs
Table Section Text: None

1972	Stewart Brand, editor	The Last Whole Earth Catalogue

1973	Frances FitzGerald	Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

1974	Murray Kempton	The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.

1975	Theodore Rosengarten	All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (see Ned Cobb)

1976	Michael J. Arlen	Passage to Ararat

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The Last Whole Earth Catalogue won the first National Book Award in the category of Contemporary Affairs.

final_sentence: The Last Whole Earth Catalogue won the first National Book Award in the category of Contemporary Affairs.