Nicholas Lemann is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and dean emeritus of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and contributes to many other publications. Previously, he was a writer and editor at The Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Texas Monthly and national correspondent for The Atlantic. Lemann’s books include the prizewinning “The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America.” His most recent book is “Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
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