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Nicholas Lemann

Nicholas Lemann is a Professor at the Columbia ­Graduate School of Journalism and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His books include Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the ­Decline of the American Dream and The Big Test: The Secret ­History of the American Meritocracy.
 (February 2020)

Can Journalism Be Saved?

Can Journalism Be Saved?

It’s going to take a whole new set of arrangements, and a new way of thinking, to solve the present crisis.

Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts

by Jill Abramson

The Powers That Be

by David Halberstam

Justice in Plain Sight: How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America’s Courtrooms

by Dan Bernstein

The Life of Kings: The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper

edited by Frederic B. Hill and Stephens Broening

The Return of the Moguls: How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century

by Dan Kennedy

Why Journalism Still Matters

by Michael Schudson

On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News

by Matthew Pressman

Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

by Alan Rusbridger

No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class

by Christopher R. Martin

Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America

by Michael Stamm

Who Owns the News?: A History of Copyright

by Will Slauter

The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia

by Michael Clay Carey

Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society

by Victor Pickard

Journalism Under Fire: Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting

by Stephen Gillers

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February 27, 2020 issue

What Happened to Clintonism?

What Happened to Clintonism?

Brother Bill: President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class

by Daryl A. Carter

Bill Clinton

by Michael Tomasky

Hillary and Bill: The Clintons and the Politics of the Personal

by William H. Chafe

Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton

by Joe Conason

June 8, 2017 issue

Can We Have a ‘Party of the People’?

Can We Have a ‘Party of the People’?

Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century

by Daniel Oppenheimer

The Limousine Liberal: How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America

by Steve Fraser

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

by Thomas Frank

October 13, 2016 issue

Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?

Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity

by Kwame Anthony Appiah

September 25, 2014 issue

The New New Orleans

If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise

a film directed by Spike Lee

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

a film directed by Spike Lee

Race

a film directed by Katherine Cecil

Trouble the Water

a film directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

March 24, 2011 issue

Charm City, USA

Charm City, USA

Treme

a television series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer

September 30, 2010 issue

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

November 16, 2000 issue

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