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Interview Details
Title & Link
Interview - 99.10.06
Publish Date
October 7, 1999
Interviewees
Nicholas Lemann
Interviewers
Katie Bacon
Publisher
The Atlantic Monthly
Topics
affirmative action
American society
education
educational opportunity
historical figures
meritocracy
Race
social mobility
standardized tests
People Mentioned
Edward Said
Elijah Anderson
Henry Chauncey
Howard Gardner
James Bryant Conant
James Fallows
James Gleick
Joseph Epstein
Michael Young
Richard Wilbur
Vikram Seth
Witold Rybczynski
Works Mentioned
An Equal Music
Code of the Street
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
Narcissus Leaves the Pool
Out of Place
The Bell Curve
The Big Test
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
The Rise of Meritocracy
Places Mentioned
America
Harvard University
New England
Texas
United States
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