Books by Nicholas Lemann

Nicholas Lemann
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	The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann 4.24 avg rating — 805 ratings — published 1991 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann 3.95 avg rating — 499 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker by David Remnick (Editor), Philip Bosco (Narrator), Amy Irving (Narrator), Alton Fitzgerald White (Narrator) 4.16 avg rating — 426 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann 3.89 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann 3.72 avg rating — 323 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries by Nicholas Lemann 4.37 avg rating — 231 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions Twentieth Anniversary Edition (The William G. Bowen Series Book 118) by William G. Bowen (Foreword), Derek Bok, Nicholas Lemann (Foreword) 3.82 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest by Walter Lippmann, Nicholas Lemann (Introduction) 3.74 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1914 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Magazine Writing 2005 by Nicholas Lemann, Nicholas Lemann 4.10 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions by Nicholas Lemann (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing by Nicholas Lemann, Marvin Krislov (contributor), Prudence Carter (contributor), Patricia Gándara (contributor) 3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eye of the Mammoth: Selected Essays (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture) by Stephen Harrigan (Goodreads Author), Nicholas Lemann (Foreword) 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic by Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Ta-Nehisi Coates 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Winter 2021 by Anthony Julius, Nicholas Lemann, Alfred Brendel, Paul Berman 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Photographs of Russell Lee: The Library of Congress (Fields of Vision, 3) by Nicholas Lemann, Amy Pastan really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of the Forties by Nicholas Lemann 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fast Track: Texans and Other Strivers by Nicholas Lemann 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside the System by Charles Peters, Nicholas Lemann 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics: Winter 2027 by Nicholas Lemann 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lessons from the poverty front; OEO didn't solve our urban problems, but it did some things right. Things we should be doing now. (Office of Economic Opportunity): An article from: Washington Monthly by Nicholas Lemann 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Higher Admissions: The Rise and Fall of Standardized Testing by Nicholas Lemann 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Back to the Family: How to Encourage Traditional Values in Complicated Times by Nicholas Lemann 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Great Stories Columbia Journalism School Centennial by Nicholas Lemann 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Texas, 1945, or The sad cowboy by Nicholas Lemann 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	マイケル・ジェンセンとアメリカ中産階級の解体――エージェンシー理論の光と影 by Nicholas Lemann 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	約束の土地―現代アメリカの希望と挫折 by Nicholas Lemann 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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