National Book Award for nonfiction, a finalist for the "Los Angeles Times Book Award in Current Interest", and the winner of the Lannar Foundation Cultural Freedom Award. The book was also named "Most Valuable Book of 2017" by The Nation. In 2018, Democracy in Chains won the Lillian Smith Book Award, for "books that are outstanding creative achievements, worthy of recognition because of their literary merit, moral vision, and honest representation of the South, its people, problems, and promises." Books References External links 1959 births 21st-century American historians Duke University faculty Living people Northwestern University faculty Brown University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Presidents of the Labor and Working-Class History Association