The Promised Land (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Nicholas Lemann
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: History
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Race, Crime or criminals, Poverty or poor people, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Politicians, Illegitimacy, Migrant labor, Technology, Public housing
- Locales: Chicago, IL, Washington, D.C., Clarksdale, MS
Praised as one of the most important books of its time, THE PROMISED LAND, like Jacob A. Riis’s classic HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES (1890), brings to life the struggles of formerly invisible members of America’s so-called underclass. Columnist George Will has compared the book favorably to Gunnar Myrdal’s AN AMERICAN DILEMMA (1944), calling it a definitive delineation of our nation’s most vexing problem. Coming a quarter-century after the publication of Claude Brown’s autobiographical MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND (1965), it is a measure of America’s subsequent neglect that...
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