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The Promised Land
How did the great migration of black Southerners to northern cities change America, and what did the war on poverty leave untried in the ghettos?
At a glance
- Author
- Nicholas Lemann
Why read it
- You will understand how the great migration reshaped city life, schooling, crime and the rise of conservatism
- You will weigh the verdict that the war on poverty tried everything against remedies like universal Head Start that were never attempted
- You will question the habit of disguising help for ghettos as some other policy, since the disguise drains the moral urgency causes need
Who it is for
- A reader of urban history asking why ghettos persisted
- A policy student studying the war on poverty
- Someone who wants Chicago's black history told through families
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