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Nicholas Lemann

Nicholas Lemann
Nicholas Lemann, born in New Orleans in 1954, began his journalistic career there and then worked at Washington Monthly, Washington Post, and Texas Monthly, of which he was executive editor. A frequent contributor to national magazines, he was national correspondent of The Atlantic Monthly and is now a staff writer at The New Yorker. His books include Transaction Man: the Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream and the prizewinning The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991).


From Wall Street to Chicago’s South Side: When Global Economics Make Local Progress Nearly Impossible

Nicholas Lemann on the Community Activism of Earl Johnson
September 11, 2019  By Nicholas Lemann
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