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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780679733478
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date: 03-31-1992
Pages: 416
Product Dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)
About the Author
Nicholas Lemann was born and raised in New Orleans and has been a magazine writer since he was a teenager. He has worked at the Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, and the Washington Post, and has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. He was the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University until 2013.