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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394746163
ISBN-139780394746166
eBay Product ID (ePID)169595
Product Key Features
Book TitleCommon Ground : a Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Number of Pages688 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1986
TopicEducational Policy & Reform / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, Social History, History, Sociology / Urban
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Education, History
AuthorJ. Anthony Lukas
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight17.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN86-040132
Reviews"A huge and marvelous work." --Kai Erikson, front page, The New York Times Book Review "A book of such force and clarity that its just praise would require language long rendered empty by jacket blurbs. To say that Common Ground is about busing in Boston is a bit like saying that Moby-Dick is about whaling in New Bedford." --Robert B. Parker, Chicago Tribune "An American classic, a book that will find a place not merely in the shelves where our national history is recorded but also in those where our literature is kept." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "A big book--monumental in scope, rich in historical detail, challenging in its conclusions and compassionate in its portraiture of the three families: the black Twymons, the Irish McGoffs, and the Yankee Divers." --Fox Butterfield, The New Republic
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal370.19/342
SynopsisWinner 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 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
LC Classification NumberF73.9.A1L85 1986
