Nicholas Lemann

14 books

The Best American Magazine Writing 2005 by

The Best American Magazine Writing 2005

Best American Magazine Writing #2005

417 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction essays informative reflective medium-paced
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann

The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

Nicholas Lemann

416 pages • 1999

nonfiction education history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann

The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America

Nicholas Lemann

416 pages • 1991

nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced
Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic by Elijah Anderson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, James Alan McPherson, Claude M. Steele, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hua Hsu, Thomas Edsall, Robert Coles, Juan Williams, Woodrow Wilson, Robert S. Boynton, Jonathan Kozol, Martin Luther King Jr., Anthony Lewis, Quincy Ewing, Mary D. Edsall, Ralph McGill, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin E. Mays, Oscar Handlin, Nicholas Lemann, J. Saunders Redding, Booker T. Washington, Jack Beatty, Randall Kennedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Betty E. Chmaj, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jeffery Goldberg, Ralph Ellison

Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic

Elijah Anderson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, James Alan McPherson, Claude M. Steele, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hua Hsu, Thomas Edsall, Robert Coles, Juan Williams, Woodrow Wilson, Robert S. Boynton, Jonathan Kozol, Martin Luther King Jr., Anthony Lewis, Quincy Ewing, Mary D. Edsall, Ralph McGill, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin E. Mays, Oscar Handlin, Nicholas Lemann, J. Saunders Redding, Booker T. Washington, Jack Beatty, Randall Kennedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Betty E. Chmaj, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jeffery Goldberg, Ralph Ellison

768 pages • 2015

nonfiction history race sociology challenging reflective medium-paced
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

Nicholas Lemann

257 pages • 2006

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann

Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream

Nicholas Lemann

320 pages • 2019

nonfiction business economics history challenging informative slow-paced
American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions by Nicholas Lemann

American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions

Nicholas Lemann

missing page info • 2020

medium-paced
The Eye of the Mammoth: Selected Essays by Stephen Harrigan

The Eye of the Mammoth: Selected Essays

Stephen Harrigan

364 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction essays reflective medium-paced
The Fast Track: Texans and Other Strivers by Nicholas Lemann

The Fast Track: Texans and Other Strivers

Nicholas Lemann

256 pages • paperback

nonfiction essays history sociology medium-paced
Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing by Nicholas Lemann

Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing

Nicholas Lemann

176 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction education