Word: non
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...eloquence, colorful origins and poise of Barack Obama won him the trust of a majority of voters and a decisive victory as America's first black President, capturing the imagination of non-Americans across the globe. After he won, he said that America's greatness lies not in its wealth or military might but in its ideals. As he promotes those ideals, I wish him all the best...
University President Drew G. Faust’s book on the Civil War—one of the five finalists in the non-fiction section of the National Book Awards—was bested for the prize by a book about the family of Thomas Jefferson’s housekeeper Sally Hemings at the award ceremony in New York last night...
...professor at Rutgers and New York Law School, Gordon-Reid is the first black woman to win the award for non-fiction...
...other finalists in the non-fiction category were journalists Jane Meyer and Jim Sheeler, and Cambridge resident Joan Wickersham...
...National Book Awards are given out annually by the National Book Foundation, a non-profit literary organization...