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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families Paperback - 1986

by J. Anthony Lukas

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The most acclaimed nonfiction book of 1985, a national bestseller, now makes its appearance in paperback, from the author of Don't Shoot--We Are Your Children!

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  • Title Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
  • Author J. Anthony Lukas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Vintage Book
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 688
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1986-08-12
  • Features Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # WAL-C-3e-002035
  • ISBN 9780394746166 / 0394746163
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.92 x 5.54 x 1.19 in (20.12 x 14.07 x 3.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Boston (Mass.) - Race relations, School integration - Massachusetts - Boston
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86040132
  • Dewey Decimal Code 370.193

From the jacket flap

Winner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 08/15/1986, Page 0

About the author

J. Anthony Lucas was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College. After four years on the Baltimore Sun, he joined The New York Times, serving as a correspondent at the United Nations, in Washington, in Africa, India, Korea, Japan, and Australia, as Roving National Correspondent, and as a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. In 1972, he left the paper to freelance and to write books. Mr Lukas has received the Pulitzer Prize twice: for Special Local Reporting in 1968 and forCommon Ground in 1986. He has also won the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the George Polk Memorial Award, the Mike Berger Award, and the Page One Award. He has been a Nieman, Kennedy, and Guggenheim Fellow and has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Boston University. His previous books include The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial; Don't Shoot--We Are Your Children!; andNightmare: the Underside of the Nixon Years.

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