Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is an American writer and academic and is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999. Lemann was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
Books in order of publication:
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
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream – 2019
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