The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
Published on 31. March 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-679-73347-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
464 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-679-73347-8 (9780679733478)
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Additional editions
Nicholas Lemann
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
E-Book
08/2011
Vintage
€16.99
Available for download
Person
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.