cover image Promised Land

Promised Land

Nicholas Lemann, Lemann. Vintage Books USA, $16.95 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73347-8

From 1940 to 1970, some five million blacks migrated to the urban North. In a vivid document that spent 10 weeks on PW 's bestseller list and was a BOMC, History Book Club and QPB alternate, Lemann collects personal accounts and refutes the belief that all federal programs to aid the black poor failed. (Apr.)