Nicholas Lemann
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Nicholas Lemann is the national correspondent for The Atlantic. (June 1998)
From the Review
November 16, 2000: Can Populism Be Popular?
The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy by Theda Skocpol
The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust by John B. Judis
September 24, 1998: 'Affirmative Race Law' (letter)
June 25, 1998: I'd Walk a Mile for a Fee
Cornered: Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice by Peter Pringle
April 9, 1998: Not a Judge (letter)
March 5, 1998: Justice for Blacks?
Race, Crime, and the Law by Randall Kennedy
Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System by Jerome G. Miller
Malign Neglect—Race, Crime, and Punishment in America by Michael Tonry
March 6, 1997: White Liberals, Black Problems (letter)
December 19, 1996: High in the Lower Depths
Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America by Leon Dash
September 19, 1996: An Attack in Atlanta
The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene
February 3, 1994: Mysteries of the Middle Class
Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream by Katherine S. Newman
Silent Depression: The Fate of the American Dream by Wallace G. Peterson
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
The Good Society by Robert Bellah, by Richard Madsen, by William M. Sullivan, by Ann Swidler, by Steven M. Tipton
Rising in the West: The True Story of an 'Okie' Family from the Great Depression Through the Reagan Years by Dan Morgan
May 28, 1992: The Not So Great Dictator
The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long by William Ivy Hair
June 27, 1991: Underachiever
Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir by John G. Tower
June 27, 1991: Downward Mobility (letter)
February 14, 1991: That's Earl, Folks!
Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics by Michael L. Kurtz, by Morgan D. Peoples
October 11, 1990: The Fall of Jim Wright: An Exchange
May 17, 1990: The Fall of Jim Wright
The Ambition and the Power by John M. Barry
Reflections of a Public Man by Jim Wright
To Kill a King: The True Story of the Political Murder of Speaker Jim Wright, the Most Powerful Man in Congress by George Mair
October 26, 1989: Whistling in the Pentagon
The Pentagonists: An Insider's View of Waste, Mismanagement, and Fraud in Defense Spending by A. Ernest Fitzgerald
New Weapons, Old Politics: America's Military Procurement Muddle by Thomas L. McNaugher
March 30, 1989: Confidence Boy
The Making of a Senator: Dan Quayle by Richard F. Fenno Jr.
July 21, 1988: Sallie Bingham's Philanthropy (letter)
June 30, 1988: The Best Years of Their Lives
Speaking Out: The Reagan Presidency from Inside the White House by Larry Speakes, by Robert Pack
On the Outside Looking In by Michael Reagan, by Joe Hyams
Revolution by Martin Anderson
June 16, 1988: The Binghams (letter)
April 28, 1988: Breaking Up
House of Dreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville by Marie Brenner
The Binghams of Louisville: The Dark History Behind One of America's Great Fortunes by David Leon Chandler, with Mary Voelz Chandler
October 22, 1987: Was It Archer City? (letter)
July 16, 1987: Chance Missed
Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry by Robert Sam Anson
January 15, 1987: When Reagan Was Reagan
Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob by Dan E. Moldea
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s by Otto Friedrich
Books by Nicholas Lemann
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (1999)