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      Nicholas Lemann

      How to make American higher education fairer

      In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of…

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      The Fast Track

      Nicholas Lemann

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      American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions

      Nicholas Lemann

      Bestselling author Nicholas Lemann presents key writings on five crucial questions confronting American democracy today.

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

      Nicholas Lemann

      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…

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      Transaction Man: Traders, Disrupters, and the Dismantling of Middle-Class America

      Nicholas Lemann

      Over the last generation, the U.S. has undergone seismic changes. Lemann explains the country’s–and the world’s–great transformation by examining three remarkable individuals who epitomized and helped create their eras.heir eras.

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      The Photographs of Russell Lee

      Nicholas Lemann

      Features historically significant collection of photographs that provide a comprehensive view of American life from 1935 to 1944 during the Great Depression. This title also presents a visual record of…

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      The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

      Professor Nicholas Lemann

      [An] engaging, enlightening historical analysis of the idea of the SAT, dramatized by stories of the people who designed it and the students who benefited from it, and … recent…

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      Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

      Professor Nicholas Lemann

      Brilliant … Redemption is accessible and important, and we cannot really understand race or political power in modern America without understanding what happened in the South a decade after Appomattox…

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      The Best American Magazine Writing

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      This compilation of award-winning articles by some of the most acclaimed writers in America celebrates excellence in a variety of genres: investigative reporting, features, profiles, and criticism, and essay-writing. Wide-ranging…

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      The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions Twentieth Anniversary Edition

      William G. Bowen,Derek Bok

      First published in 1998, this text became an immediate landmark in the debate over affirmative action in America. It grounded a contentious subject in concrete data at a time when…

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      Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 2

      Anthony Julius,Nicholas Lemann,Alfred Brendel

      Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features original essays and poetry from some of today’s best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood…

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      Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 2

      Martha C. Nussbaum,Samuel Moyn,Maria Stepanova

      A Meteor of Intelligent Substance

      Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.

      Liberties, a journal of…

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