Nicholas Lemann: 2 books
Redemption
The Last Battle of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away.
Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary...
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.