Word: lemann
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...Nicholas Lemann...
...first glance, the Bowling Alone thesis would seem to fit neatly with the post-'60s outlook of conservatives who believe an overweening central government is like a great tree whose shadow does not allow civic engagement to grow underneath it. But Putnam's thesis, as Nicholas Lemann wrote in the Atlantic Monthly, also has had an appeal for liberals exhausted from their battles to keep federal money flowing into their programs. A revival of civic engagement, Lemann pointed out, doesn't require spending money or raising taxes, yet it satisfied the liberals' yearning for social activism. And it relieved both...
...Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land, is working on a book about success in America...
Following such estimable models as The Civil War and Eyes on the Prize, The Promised Land (produced by Anthony Geffen and based on the critically acclaimed 1991 book by Nicholas Lemann) recounts this social history with understated narration (by Morgan Freeman), evocative music (blues and gospel) and the plainspoken words of people who lived through it. They are mostly anonymous folks, free of sanctimony or self-importance. People like Uless Carter, a bespectacled, Mississippi-born minister, who reminisces with the sweet-tempered grace of a character in a John Ford western. Or James Hinton, one of 22 children of Alabama...
Based on the critically acclaimed book by Nicholas Lemann, thisfive-part documentary series-- airing Sunday, Monday through Wednesday and Saturday on the Discovery Channel (check local listings) -- is about the 1950s black migration from the oppressive conditions of the Mississippi Delta to the then-booming city of Chicago.TIME critic Richard Zoglinsays the understated narration by Morgan Freeman, evocative music and plainspoken words of people who lived through it, make it a must-see. Its "unhurried gravity is something close to poetry," Zoglin says...