At the National Book Awards last night, the nonfiction chair Ada Ferrer explained what she and her fellow judges had been looking for as they narrowed the field from hundreds of submissions to five finalists and finally one winner (Ned Blackhawk’s “The Rediscovery of America”): They wanted books that somehow made a difference, in any of the many ways that books can do that, and that were well written, in any of the many ways that books can meet that definition.
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