Common Ground ─ A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

Probes the school integration crisis that shattered Boston during the decade 1968-1978 through portraits of three families--black, Irish and Yankee

J. Anthony Lucas was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College. After four years on the?Baltimore Sun, he 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. In 1972, he left the paper to freelance and to write books. Mr Lukas has received the Pulitzer Prize twice: for Special Local Reporting in 1968 and forCommon Ground?in 1986. 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 previous books include?The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial;?Don't Shoot—We Are Your Children!; andNightmare: the Underside of the Nixon Years.