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LUKAS, J. ANTHONY Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Trade Paperback. Good. BOOK CLUB TRADE PAPERBACK. Cover edge wear, light page toning, bookplate on front free endpaper, minor shelf wear. "The climax of this humane account of 10 years in Boston that began with news of Martin Luther King's assassination, is a watershed moment in the city's modern history--the 1974 racist riots that followed the court-ordered busing of kids to integrate the schools. To bring understanding to that moment, Lukas, a former New York Times journalist, focuses on two working-class families, headed by an Irish-American widow and an African-American mother, and on the middle-class family of a white liberal couple. Lukas goes beyond stereotypes, carefully grounding each perspective in its historical roots, whether in the antebellum South, or famine-era Ireland. In the background is the cast of public figures--including Judge Garrity, Mayor White, and Cardinal Cushing--with cameo roles in this disturbing history that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.".
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