Common Ground
By J. Anthony Lukas
By J. Anthony Lukas
By J. Anthony Lukas
By J. Anthony Lukas
Category: Domestic Politics | World History
Category: Domestic Politics | World History
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Paperback $22.00
Aug 12, 1986 | ISBN 9780394746166
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Praise
“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
Awards
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award WINNER 1986
National Book Awards AWARD 1985
National Book Critics Circle Awards AWARD 1985
Pulitzer Prize AWARD 1986
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