National Book Award Non Fiction Winner
Common Ground
by J. Anthony Lukas
Summary
A "New Journalism" masterpiece that follows three families in Boston—one Black, one Irish-American, and one WASP—during the city's 1970s school busing crisis.
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Historical Context & Significance
Lukas spent seven years on the book; it won the NBA, the Pulitzer, and the National Book Critics Circle Award—the "Triple Crown" of nonfiction.