Nicholas Lemann, a longtime correspondent for The New Yorker, a former dean of Columbia’s journalism school, and a former writer for The Atlantic , has spent decades writing about the biggest American themes: race, the South, the rise and fall of the meritocracy . In his new book, Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries , Lemann shows that his fascination with those subjects is no accident. They have shaped the destiny of his own family since his great-great-grandfather, a German

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