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	Columbia News ::: Nicholas Lemann Agrees To Become Journalism Dean, Subject to University Trustees' Approval
		Lemann is widely respected as a perceptive analyst of the issues of race and inequality.
		Lemann serves on the boards of the Author's Guild, the Society of the American Historians, the Lukas Prize Project and the City University of New York's Center for the Humanities.
		In the fall of 2002, Lemann was among a group of prominent media and academic figures invited to participate in a special task force, convened by President Bollinger, to explore the future role of journalism education in the modern world.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/03/04/j_school_dean.html (501 words)

	Robert Christgau: Aptitude Adjustment: Nicholas Lemann's "The Big Test"
		So is Lemann's continuing attention to the internal politics of the Educational Testing Service, which as recently as 1990, he reports, quashed an index designed by one of its tenured statisticians to correct results for class and race.
		Lemann was right to believe that testing was a great unreported story and race its Achilles heel, and right on to link them so inextricably.
		What Lemann has made of that brave new cohort is an excellent beginning to its chronicle.
	www.robertchristgau.com /xg/bkrev/lemann-99.php (879 words)

	Nicholas Lemann
		Nicholas Lemann is dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and a...
		Nicholas Lemann was the editor of The Washington Monthly from 1977 to 1979...
		Nicholas was Lemann was born in New Orleans in 1954.
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	Nicholas Lemann's "Oligarchy of Brains" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lemann wants to turn his history of American testing into a story of the growing indispensability of the SAT and its development as a sort of uber-test, where 10 points can radically alter the course of a talented young man or woman's life.
		Lemann dedicates a chapter (his twenty-third) to this idea—or, more accurately, to a lingering description of the personal resistance to Manning's career engineered by the “rich lawyers” of the establishment who didn't want their kids losing out—but even he never seems convinced by it.
		Lemann's historical analysis of the founding and underpinnings of the SAT is useful specifically because it functions, in many ways, as an antidote to the last part of the book, when Lemann argues the test has become too important and too unfair.
	www.dartreview.com /issues/10.12.99/oligarchy.html (1468 words)

	Mary Campbell Gallagher - Review of Nicholas Lemann, The Big Test (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999). ...
		As Lemann does not explain fully, when the selective colleges started increasing the number of minority applicants in the late 1960s and early 1970s under affirmative action, the use of the SAT made deficiencies in the education of fl applicants startlingly measurable.
		Lemann's narrative follows a lawyer, Molly Munger (like this reviewer, a 1974 graduate of Harvard Law School, in the first class to consist of more than 10 percent women), as she becomes an activist in the failed opposition to Proposition 209.
		Lemann merely concludes that the high-scoring Mandarins are not, in fact, the new aristocrats that Conant imagined.
	www.marycampbellgallagher.com /work12.htm (1963 words)

	On the Media
		Lemann has been the Washington correspondent to the New Yorker magazine for the past 3 years and prior to that he put in 15 years as the national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly.
		NICHOLAS LEMANN: The day that I start as dean will be the exact 20th anniversary of the day that I left an office for the last time and started working alone at home.
		BOB GARFIELD: Nicholas Lemann is the Washington correspondent for the New Yorker and appointee-designate to the Deanship of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
	www.onthemedia.org /yore/transcripts/transcripts_050203_jschool.html (957 words)

	The toughest row to hoe; Nicholas Lemann takes us to the ghettos like no one else has. Now, how the hell do we get out? ...
		Lemann may make his living as a national correspondent for The Atlantic, but he's also a former editor of this magazine and among its most prolific contributors.
		If Lemann's freshest material is his work on government, his most moving is his reporting from the Chicago slums, especially the story of Ruby Haynes, who lived for more than a quarter century in the mammoth Robert Taylor Homes.
		Lemann argues that American ghettos have become some of the worst places to live in the world, if not by monetary measures, then by the standard of sheer chaos.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n5_v23/ai_10746068 (837 words)

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	Powell's Books - Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann
		Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the fl community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree.
		What Lemann calls the last battle of the Civil War was won by the unregenerate white South, and not until the 1960s — nearly a century later — did its grip begin to weaken.
		Nicholas Lemann, dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, is the author of The Big Test and the prizewinning The Promised Land.
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	Lemann Biography
		In recent years Lemann has written cover articles on the underclass, the War on Poverty, and the history of standardized testing in the United States.
		Lemann has also written numerous pieces in The Atlantic Monthly on subjects spanning national and local politics, education, television, and biography.
		Lemann was born and raised in New Orleans.
	www.theatlantic.com /about/people/nlbio.htm (284 words)

	since1968.com: Nicholas Lemann on Citizen Journalism
		Lemann argues that the phenomenon of “citizen journalism” is over-hyped (duh); and that real journalism may be distinguished from blogging in large part because “real” journalists have access to those in power and the resources to report stories of breadth and nuance for a duration exceeding self-funded bloggers.
		Lemann claims that bloggers tend to narrowcast and can’t possibly reach across “the usual bounds of geography and class”; this last assertion is especially rich coming from The New Yorker, for gosh sakes.
		Lemann’s point is that most citizen journalism is written in a folksy style best consumed in rocking chairs by invalids, he’s probably right.
	since1968.com /article/182/nicholas-lemann-on-citizen-journalism (698 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Redemption, by Nicholas Lemann, Hardcover
		With devastating accuracy, Lemann traces the prolonged campaign of organized violence waged by white supremacists in the 1870s to overturn the 14th and 15th Amendments, which granted civil rights to freed fls.
		Lemann bases his devastating account on a wealth of military records, congressional investigations, memoirs, press reports, and the invaluable papers of Adelbert Ames, the war hero from Maine who was Mississippi's governor at the time.
		Lemann is a responsible writer who aims to convey what he calls "the feeling of history unfolding, not of history considered in retrospect." But Redemption inevitably speaks to the present as well as about the past.
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	Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (Nicholas Lemann) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As Lemann makes clear in the unstated subtext of the book, the South in effect won the Civil War, and today we are still living in the afterglow of the background radiation of the terror that "redeemed" the South.
		Lemann is the dean of the school of Journalism at Columbia University and the author of a number of earlier books, including, most importantly, "The Promised Land: the Great Black Migration and How it Changed America", the story of how African Americans migrated North in the mid-twentieth Century.
		Lemann portrays the end of Reconstruction as a result both of White Liner terror tactics and of a failure of will and war-weariness in the North.
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	Winning or Losing? An Inside Look at the War on Terror - Council on Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		LEMANN: Let me, before again returning to Iraq, which I will do in a minute, read you another intriguing passage from the speech, which I’m sure many of you in the audience noticed, and you may want to weigh in on, too.
		LEMANN: Well, this leads to—and I’m running toward the end of my allotted Q-and-A time, but I wanted to just spend the last few minutes exploring the question of what should we have done as a response to the September 11th attacks.
		LEMANN: Let me do a follow-up to that though, because you know all through this period one hears within the administration there was an argument about what that kind of attack would do.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=7771 (8091 words)

	Nicholas Lemann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Nicholas Lemann graduated from Harvard University in 1976.
		Nicholas Lemann is America's best writer about America's most vexing problem...
		NICHOLAS LEMANN, a Washington Monthly contributing editor, is a staff writer at The New Yorker...
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	NYO - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Nicholas Lemann, the dean of Columbia’s School of Journalism and a staff writer at The New Yorker, tells the story of what soon became known as “the Mississippi Plan,” its background and its baleful aftermath in Redemption.
		Lemann performs a sterling service in excavating these hidden ruins, and Redemption is a superb, supple work of popular narrative history backed up by sound archival evidence.
		Lemann very properly gives both sides of any given clash, yet almost invariably exculpates fls from any hint of impropriety.
	www.observer.com /20061016/20061016_Alexander_Rose_culture_books4.asp (583 words)

	Review of Nicholas Lemann, The Big Test
		And here’s Lemann on an upper-middle-class Ivy League law student (and, I strongly suspect, on himself as well): “She wanted very badly to make it, to earn her way to a berth in the American elite, but at the same time she wanted to fix the country’s flaws, which burned her up.
		Another Lemann objection to the SAT is that African-Americans as a group do relatively poorly on it.
		Lemann has no trouble demonstrating that different schools tend to admit students with significantly different SAT scores, grade point averages, and ambitions.
	www.radicalmiddle.com /x_lemann.htm (1616 words)

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	Amazon.de: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War: English Books: Nicholas Lemann,Michael Prichard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lemann (The Promised Land) hammers the point home with a grim account of post–Civil War Mississippi.
		As military commander, he provided enough security to ensure a Republican victory in 1869 state elections (fls voted Republican until the 1930s), became an advocate of civil rights and was elected senator in 1870 and governor in 1873.
		Drawing on military records, memoirs, press reports, and congressional investigations, Lemann details the political machinations of whites, through vigilantism and chicanery, to deprive the freedmen of their rights as citizens under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
	www.amazon.de /Redemption-Last-Battle-Civil-War/dp/1400102839 (578 words)

	Journalism scholars criticize Newsweek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lemann rejected the notion that other reported incidents of humiliation of prisoners because of their Islamic beliefs gave Newsweek cause to think that this report was plausible.
		Lemann also doesn't buy the idea that the Periscope is a glorified gossip column with less exacting standards of proof.
		When it comes to verifying such stories in the future, Lemann suggested that Newsweek borrow a page from the New Yorker and institute a rigorous fact-checking system -- even if it means that an editor, and not just the reporter, knows the identity of a confidential source.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05138/506145.stm (1013 words)

	A talk with Nicholas Lemann, author of 'Redemption' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As Nicholas Lemann points out, "One hundred years ago, it wasn't the Civil War, but Reconstruction, that predominated in the popular culture."
		Lemann's book humanizes this story by concentrating on Louisiana and Mississippi between 1873 and 1876, and, in particular, the "carpetbagger" governor of Mississippi, a man named Adelbert Ames, son-in-law of Benjamin Butler, the Yankee general whose rule in New Orleans was considered, by Southern whites, to be legendary in its cruelty.
		Ames was an idealist who vainly strove against lynchings and massacres by white vigilante groups that were determined to disenfranchise the majority fl population.
	www.statesman.com /news/content/life/stories/books/10/22/22lemann.html (1034 words)

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		LeMann chronicles an ugly period in american history and reveals the barbaric nature of american racism against fls as reconstruction came to a close in the south.
		Lemann attempts to write about the emancipation of slaves and their early years of freedom, and his mistakes begin at....the beginning.
		Lemann attempts to blame the reconstructed South for Jim Crow laws when, in reality, everyone was to blame.
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	'Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War,' by Nicholas Lemann - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times
		The story of Reconstruction’s demise in Mississippi is familiar to historians, and Nicholas Lemann, in “Redemption,” retells it in all its terrible gore.
		Lemann, the dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia and the author of “The Promised Land,” among other books, affirms Reconstruction as a noble, thwarted experiment, the nation’s “unfinished revolution,” in the words of the era’s current leading historian, Eric Foner.
		Lemann presents Ames’s political rise in counterpoint with his courtship of Blanche Butler of Massachusetts, whom he married in 1870.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/09/10/books/review/Wilentz.t.html?ex=1315540800&en=4af05b262cd37ad2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (870 words)

	The New York Observer's MondoWeiss: Nicholas Lemann for Harvard President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lemann's life and work show that you can be as smart as Summers, actually smarter, and care about ordinary people.
		Lemann comes from a privileged background but has a deep sense of noblesse oblige, meaning he believes in something the meritocracy doesn't cultivate: community.
		The thing I'd fault Lemann for—he was too tactful as a journalist covering the powerful— recommends him for the Harvard presidency.
	mondoweiss.observer.com /2006/03/nicholas-lemann-for-harvard-president.html (421 words)

	Larchmont Gazette.com: Nicholas Lemann Larchmont/Mamaroneck League of Women Voters
		Lemann believes that the website was influential in cutting short (though not short enough) the overreporting of candidate Dean’s now-famous roaring Iowa caucus concession speech, and for extracting a lengthy on air "mea culpa" from ABC's Diane Sawyer for the the way networks, including her own covered the event.
		Lemann concurred that students were appearing at graduate school without the basic grounding in grammar.
		Lemann suggested that the newspapers could benefit from an investment – even a small investment – in fact checkers.
	www.larchmontgazette.com /2004/articles/20040211lwv.html (1253 words)

	Steve Sailer: National Post of Canada op-ed: "Flunking 'The Big Test' by Nicholas Lemann" meritocracy IQ SAT score ...
		Lemann, for example, became best friends at Harvard with Michael Kinsley, who went on to edit The New Republic, Harper's, and Slate.
		Lemann's big book was to be their coup de grace.
		Fortunately for Lemann, since his natural audience of liberal verbalists aren't too comfortable with either numbers or logic, they'll no doubt appreciate having neither their mental skills nor their prejudices challenged.
	www.isteve.com /BigTest.htm (1011 words)

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