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  • Returning

    A Search for Home Across Three Centuries

    Compulsive, shattering, if not fundamentally disruptive, Returning emerges as one of the most important and searingly honest family sagas of our time.Nicholas Lemann, a veteran New Yorker correspondent, grew up in New Orleans, the son of German Jews in a world of gilded privilege. Yet in contrast to his parents’ generation, which always sought to downplay their religious background, Lemann was ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Redemption

    The Last Battle of the Civil War

    "A vigorous, necessary reminder of how racist reaction bred an American terrorism that suppressed Black political activity and crushed Reconstruction." —Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book ReviewNicholas 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 ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Promised Land

    The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

    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. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Transaction Man

    Traders, Disrupters, and the Dismantling of Middle-Class America

    "A splendid and beautifully written illustration of the tremendous importance public policy has for the daily lives of ordinary people." —Ryan Cooper, Washington MonthlyOver the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions

    Edited by Nicholas Lemann ...
    From The Federalist to Citizens United, a bestselling historian presents key writings on five crucial questions confronting American democracy todayAmid the frenzied overload of 24-hour cable news and incessant social media, at a time when many of us fear for the future of our democracy, it is becoming harder and harder to think clearly about politics. American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Higher Admissions

    The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing

    Series series Our Compelling Interests
    How to make American higher education fairerIn the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the world’s first mass higher education system—and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a “meritocracy” in which ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Eye of the Mammoth

    New and Selected Essays

    Series Book 38 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    History—natural history, human history, and personal history—and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in "Off Course" a quest to learn all he can about his father, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drift and Mastery

    An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

    Series series Forerunners
    Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting, global perspective, and intellectual rigor. Each selection remains strikingly relevant today, offering ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Eye of the Mammoth

    Selected Essays

    In four decades of writing for magazines ranging from Texas Monthly to the Atlantic, American History, and Travel Holiday, Stephen Harrigan has established himself as one of America’s most thoughtful writers. In this career-spanning anthology, which gathers together essays from two previous books—A Natural State and Comanche Midnight—as well as previously uncollected work, readers finally have a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Drift and Mastery

    Narrated by Lee Osorio ...
    Series series Forerunners Series

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting, global perspective, and intellectual rigor. Each selection remains strikingly relevant today, offering ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Higher Admissions

    The Rise and Fall of Standardized Testing

    Narrated by Terrence Kidd ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 19 min

    In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the world's first mass higher education system—and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a "meritocracy." In Higher Admissions, Nicholas Lemann reflects on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Returning

    A Search for Home Across Three Centuries

    Narrated by Nicholas Lemann ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 5 min

    Compulsive, shattering, if not fundamentally disruptive, Returning emerges as one of the most important and searingly honest family sagas of our time.Nicholas Lemann, a veteran New Yorker correspondent, grew up in New Orleans, the son of German Jews in a world of gilded privilege. Yet in contrast to his parents’ generation, which always sought to downplay their religious background, Lemann was ... Read more

    $25.99 USD