{"product_id":"common-ground-isbn-9780394746166","title":"Common Ground","description":"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling \u003ci\u003eCommon Ground\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\"A huge and marvelous work.\" —Kai Erikson, front page, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A book of such force and clarity that its just praise would require language long rendered empty by jacket blurbs. To say that \u003ci\u003eCommon Ground\u003c\/i\u003e is about busing in Boston is a bit like saying that \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e is about whaling in New Bedford.\" —Robert B. Parker, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003eJ. Anthony Lucas was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College. After four years on the \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, he joined \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 for\u003ci\u003eCommon Ground\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDon't Shoot—We Are Your Children!\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003eNightmare: the Underside of the Nixon Years\u003c\/i\u003e.National Bestseller Winner of the Pulitzer Prize","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301184950501,"sku":"NP9780394746166","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780394746166.jpg?v=1767723971","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/common-ground-isbn-9780394746166","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}