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Common Ground

A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Author J. Anthony Lukas
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale Sep 12, 2012 | 688 Pages | 9780307823755
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities."

"An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
  • WINNER | 1986
    Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
  • AWARD | 1986
    Pulitzer Prize
  • AWARD | 1985
    National Book Awards
  • AWARD | 1985
    National Book Critics Circle Awards
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 for Common 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!; and Nightmare: the Underside of the Nixon Years. View titles by J. Anthony Lukas

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities."

"An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

Awards

  • WINNER | 1986
    Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
  • AWARD | 1986
    Pulitzer Prize
  • AWARD | 1985
    National Book Awards
  • AWARD | 1985
    National Book Critics Circle Awards

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 for Common 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!; and Nightmare: the Underside of the Nixon Years. View titles by J. Anthony Lukas

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  • Common Ground
    Common Ground
    A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    J. Anthony Lukas
    9780394746166
    $22.00 US
    Paperback
    Vintage
    Aug 12, 1986
  • Common Ground
    Common Ground
    A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    J. Anthony Lukas
    9780394746166
    $22.00 US
    Paperback
    Vintage
    Aug 12, 1986

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