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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

TopicEducational Policy & Reform / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, Social History, History, Sociology / Urban

Publication Year1986

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

Dewey Edition19

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 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