The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

Lemann, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 0679733477 / ISBN 13: 9780679733478

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679733477
• ISBN 13: 9780679733478
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

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.

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.