Nicholas Lemann
Nicholas Lemann is Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and the author of The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991), The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (1999), Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006), and Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream (2019). He has been a writer and editor at...See more
Nicholas Lemann is Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and the author of The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991), The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (1999), Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006), and Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream (2019). He has been a writer and editor at Washington Monthly , Texas Monthly , and the Washington Post , a national correspondent for The Atlantic , and, since 1999, a staff writer for The New Yorker . See less
Nicholas Lemann's Featured Books
Nicholas Lemann book reviews
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American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions
American Democracy On The Fourth Of July
Every Fourth of July, I try to post a review appropriate to the themes of the day. This year I was fortunate to read this aptly-titled anthology, "American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent ... Read More