Nicholas Lemann
Nicholas Lemann is dean and Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is a journalist, editor, and author of several books on 20th century American history. Lemann has published five books, including Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War; The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, which helped lead to a major reform of the SAT; and The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, which won several book prizes and is considered a definitive work of American history. He has written widely for such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, TheNew Republic, and Slate.
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