Common Ground, J. Anthony Lukas
Common Ground, J. Anthony Lukas
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Common Ground
A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

Author: J. Anthony Lukas

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged: 35 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/02/2018

Synopsis

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."

About J. Anthony Lukas

J. Anthony Lukas 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.

Lukas has received the Pulitzer Prize twice. 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 books include The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities, Don't Shoot-We Are Your Children!, and Nightmare.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on April 24, 2021

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Among the best narrative nonfiction books I have ever read, perhaps the best. Common Ground is very long (I mostly listened but partly read it over the course of two months), but I would not have parted with a page of it. Sometimes you get the point of a book quickly but it......more

Goodreads review by Nick on February 04, 2012

This is a masterpiece of a book. It is about Boston in the 1970s, though if it had been described to me only as such I'm sure I wouldn't have picked it up. Instead, it was lent to me by a good friend who recommended it highly. Reading "Common Ground" felt a lot like watching "The Wire," and I can't h......more

Goodreads review by CLM on May 14, 2017

Several years ago, I was asked to give a Common Ground tour to a friend: [URL not allowed] More recently, in my current job, I got the assignment of working on a grant at the Charlestown Housing Development so have spent a fair amount of time there. It has changed a lot since Lu......more

Goodreads review by Ben on July 31, 2008

This is a book that I had to read for a college course and I thought it was okay, but it really took a long time to get through and I didn't care that much in the end. But when I read it again after college, I realized how great it really is. It takes a look at three families: one poor black family,......more

Goodreads review by Jim on April 06, 2012

My favorite genre is non-fiction, though it isn't easy to find a good selection. Either the author gets the history right but he/she can't write, or the author is a good writer but gets the history wrong. Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas, is a Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece about an event in th......more

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